What
is file sharing?
Is the accessing or sharing of files by one or more
users. File sharing is performed on computer networks as an easy and quick way
to transmit data. File sharing is very
common between students and corporations.
Some common file sharing options are: Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive,
and ShareFile. When I work with my
classmates I usually use Google Drive.
Google
Drive share files and folders, you can quickly invite others to view, download, and
collaborate on all the files you want no email attachment needed. It is so much easier to work on a project
because students/people can edit the project that they are working on and
everyone else can see your edits. Google
Drive is a safe
place for all your files and puts them within reach from any smartphone,
tablet, or computer.
File
sharing is a problem for the music and movie industry. Now there are sites were you can download
free music and movies. The process works by users connecting to an Internet
based peer-to-peer network and making their files available to others connected
to that same network. The user initiates
the download and a copy of the song is transferred to their computer. If a
user's computer holds songs that others want, the same process is repeated in
reverse. This is the file sharing process. The network makes everyone's files
available in order to share.
An
article, “Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?”
written by Eric Pfanner explains “The American
entertainment industry says accounts for the loss of $20 billion a year in
sales. Several lawmakers vowed to increase scrutiny of international markets
where piracy is widespread.” I think, every
year the American entertainment industry is going to loose more money because
of file sharing and the Internet make it really easy to have access to these
files.
What is P2P File sharing?
“P2P
file sharing allows users to access
media files such as books,
music, movies, and games using a P2P
software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired
content” P2P programs can be an
efficient way to share large files with others, such as personal video
recordings or large sets of photos. P2P is also used to facilitate direct communications
between computer and device users.
If you aren’t careful, P2P file sharing can subject you to spyware, viruses, Trojan horses and identity theft. t. Some P2P applications can even modify or penetrate your
computer’s firewall without detection.
Examples of P2P file sharing
The uses of P2P are File sharing,, Instant messaging,
Voice communication Collaboration, Backup, Sensor nets and distributed
computing. Example of P2P
Napster, Morpheus,
Gnutella, Freenet, BitTorrent and .Skype
