Thursday, November 15, 2012

P2P File Sharing

New media is broad in today's community. P2P file sharing is one of them.
File sharing is which users can store or save files like documents, music, photos, videos through the network, and they can get these files at any computer that has network connection for free.
P2P file sharing is quite similar to the file sharing. The only difference is that P2P is between peers. For example, one peer can distribute a file from his computer network, and other peers can get that file from their network.
Some examples of P2P file sharing include Bit Torrent, Napster,  and Open Nap.
File sharing is fast and convenient to share files through the network. Yet it has some negative aspects too, its legality. Brian Stelter and Brad Stone's article "Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios" points out that illegal copies videos like Batman were downloaded millions of times; this means a huge loss of revenue to Hollywood studios. As a result of piracy, copyrights law suits are brought.

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