P2P

Did you illegally download music from sites such as LimeWire when everyone was doing it instead of buying CDs? I sure did! I was about thirteen years old and I had no idea that what I was doing was known as peer to peer sharing(P2P). It differs slightly from file sharing. File sharing is when a file is shared from computer to computer through the internet. Example of fire sharing sites are Dropbox, Google Drive, and One Drive. Peer to peer sharing works similarly as file sharing. It is the sharing of digital media over the internet. Digital media can range from music to books. Peer to peer sharing is easy because it is done through peer to peer networking technology. Besides LimeWire, another example of this technology is uTorrent and Frostwire. Eventually, peer to peer sharing became outdated. According to the article “Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?”, downloading digital media is getting replaced by streaming it instead. Content is getting streamed at a faster rate than downloading it.

Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" by ERIC PFANNER, The New York Times, April 13, 2009, p. B4. Available athttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/technology/internet/13iht-piracy13.html