P2P
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Lets talk about P2P, or peer to peer as it stands for. Generally speaking, peer to peer models can be applied to just about anything so long as a product is being provided by a consumer to another consumer. But in the context of new media and technology, peer to peer often refers to using someone else's computer as a server, and using it as a means of getting files and other things like that. It's commonly referred to as file sharing. As the name implies, file sharing is quite literally just that; sharing one file to another client (user). That being said, P2P file sharing presents many problems, specifically in the realms of pirating. Pirated content is content that has been taken and redistributed for profit or without profit. This is especially prevalent in the P2P filespace as there are hundreds of thousands of pirating websites where individuals can acquire music, textbooks, documents, and more for literally no cost. This is such a problem that in the article "Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?", the article cites that the "entertainment industry loses 20 billion dollars a year" from pirating alone. That's a lot of money.
P2P file sharing is often seen on sites like Demonoid, KAT (rest in peace), the Pirate Bay, and for the really old folk like me (relax im only 21), Limewire. These all took advantage of some individual acting as a server, posting files to be shared, and clients requesting those files and downloading themselves. P2P filesharing at its finest, and how many individuals around the world have been getting by for years.
Lets talk about P2P, or peer to peer as it stands for. Generally speaking, peer to peer models can be applied to just about anything so long as a product is being provided by a consumer to another consumer. But in the context of new media and technology, peer to peer often refers to using someone else's computer as a server, and using it as a means of getting files and other things like that. It's commonly referred to as file sharing. As the name implies, file sharing is quite literally just that; sharing one file to another client (user). That being said, P2P file sharing presents many problems, specifically in the realms of pirating. Pirated content is content that has been taken and redistributed for profit or without profit. This is especially prevalent in the P2P filespace as there are hundreds of thousands of pirating websites where individuals can acquire music, textbooks, documents, and more for literally no cost. This is such a problem that in the article "Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?", the article cites that the "entertainment industry loses 20 billion dollars a year" from pirating alone. That's a lot of money.
P2P file sharing is often seen on sites like Demonoid, KAT (rest in peace), the Pirate Bay, and for the really old folk like me (relax im only 21), Limewire. These all took advantage of some individual acting as a server, posting files to be shared, and clients requesting those files and downloading themselves. P2P filesharing at its finest, and how many individuals around the world have been getting by for years.
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