P2P

What is file sharing?

File sharing, weather it simply distributing file through flash drives, the internet or email, give people the ability to access files for free. File sharing allows a number of people to use the same file or file by some combination of being able to read or view it, write to or modify it, copy it, or print it. Typically, a file sharing system has one or more administrators. Users may all have the same or may have different levels of access privilege. File sharing can also mean having an allocated amount of personal file storage in a common file system like a mainframe.

What is P2P File sharing?

P2p is the next step to file sharing. Its more faster and more reliable, if a mainframe goes out the whole system is down, on the other hand because p2p is made up by multiply users if one user is down the other will keep the system going.

What are some examples of P2P file sharing?

Most files sharing sites are P2P’s like Napster, LimeWire and Kazaa. Skype is also a form of P2P but on a communication level.  Nowadays, film and music industries believe that P2P sharing is unethical because they are losing billions of dollars each year. According to Brian Stelter and Bill Carter New York Times article, “illegal downloads and streams are now responsible for about 40 percent of the revenue the industry loses annually as a result of piracy”. Hollywood needs to adjust they business format by using the P2P and the internet in its favor. Moreover, people like James L. McQuivey, believes that Consumers want be in control of what they watch and wants everything to be easily streamable. Nothing is wrong with that, people have the right to not want to watch a commercial every two minutes, other times we want to cut to a straiten part of a firm. Views should have a choice, and P2P is giving us this ability.


sources
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05piracy.html