File sharing is when someone gives access to online information such as videos, images, documents, and audio. File sharing has become very big and almost everyone that uses the internet uses file sharing. A type of file sharing is P2P or peer to peer file sharing. An example of peer to peer file sharing is Bit-torrent, 4shared, Pirate Bay, etc. There are no limits on how much information you are able to download. However, the information you download are not reviewed by anyone and can be "illegal." It would usually take hours to download a movie but on Bit-Torrent you would be able to download it in 20 minutes. Many people began noticing this and began to use Bit-Torrent and that is why there are over 20 million downloads as of 2005, 4 years after the first version was available. Companies such as Motion Picture Association of America began to start suing people that download the movies and this is why people began to be more careful of the content they download. It is the information that is illegal, not the program itself.
Source:
1. The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, Wired, January 2005. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html
No comments:
Post a Comment