Thursday, April 12, 2012

P2P FileSharing

What is file sharing? The meaning of the word is the ability to providing or distributing access to digital information such videos, documents, books, computer programs and special media (videos, images and audio). This process of the distribution and dispersion of the information can be by flash-drives, the actual manual physical objects ( DCs, DVDs, documents in paper, media tapes or any other type of object) and by through the Internet.
The process of sharing any type of information through the Internet or any other way, is leading to P2P "Peer to Peer or Play to Play" but what does it mean now? the term of P2P refers to a new type  of network in where allows personal computers hardware and software works without special service devices and now P2P becomes popular technology for the file sharing in the community for the access of the documents and computers programs for free. Today exist many of P2P such Kazaa, Pirate Bay, Shareaza, BitTorrent, Ares and many more. All of these websites or P2P  provide the files haring in huge quantities to people around the world and every day in crease the file sharing in the community.




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