Thursday, November 17, 2011

P2P Sharing

       File sharing is the sharing or exchange of files between people using computers connected to the internet. The term covers both the making available of the file, for instance on a file-sharing service such as Kaaza, Napster, Limewire, etc, and the downloading of that file from the internet to a computer. It has gotten pretty big over the years now that technology is so important to us.  You can share files in a few different ways, like web based hyperlinks, through computer networks or majority of new technological devices
          P2P (peer-to-peer) sharing is a way of sharing files between two users.   P2P sharing eliminates the need for a central server. It allows all computers to communicate and share resources (files). According to the article “Filesharing Joins The Mainstream” by Chris Nuttall, the most popular website for P2P sharing is BitTorrent.  With BitTorrent, you can download files that are extremely big from another user.   BitTorrent works so well because it downloads files so fast.   With P2P file sharing, the more people that download the same file, the faster it typically downloads.
  

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