P2P

The file sharing is to transmit files from one computer to another over a network or internet. These days, many people share their own files through the internet. In recent years, companies like Dropbox or Google have developed the cloud computing system to make transfer easier than ever before.

The P2P file sharing is an abbreviation for Peer-to-Peer file sharing. It 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. The peers of such networks are end-user computer systems that are interconnected via the Internet.

For example, torrent is well-known P2P file sharing according to the article in WIRED Magazine, it reports Bram Cohen who is the creator of BitTorrent, one of the most successful peer-to-peer programs ever about 150,000 users a day. BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3. In the article, Bram said “The more files you're willing to share, the faster any individual torrent downloads to your computer”. This can be pros and cons of the torrent since the speed of downloads varies depending on the number of peers (ThompsonClive, 2005).

Works Cited

Thompson, C. (2005, January). The BitTorrent Effect. Retrieved from WIRED: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html