P2P
Peer-to-peer, more commonly known as P2P, refers to computer systems that communicate to each other through a network without passing through a central server. Each computer on the network communicates with each other computer. In simpler terms, it's the practice of making computer files available to other users on the same network. This is more commonly seen through the sharing of music and videos through the internet.
Torrenting or pirating music, movies and books have become a common practice amongst internet users. The largest pirating site was "thepiratebay", but they were charged with copyright infringements leading to their ultimate downfall but throughout the year other copycat websites have popped up, taken down and popped back up on the internet in an endless cycle. This practice makes it incredibly easy for users to stream movies and tv shows, listen to music, read books without paying a single dime for them. This results in huge losses for writers, publishers, studios and producers who create these content.
Another example of a successful P2P program is BitTorrent. BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3. According to the Wired article, titled, THE BITTORRENT EFFECT, "BitTorrent traffic accounts for more than one-third of all data sent across the Internet." BitTorrent has become a go to hub to download tv shows and movies within minutes, resulting in over 20 million people downloading the BitTorrent application.
I liked the part you said P2P is a communication to each other through network, which I totally agree with you nowadays it became daily mentatory thing we do in daily life with people. People shares file through torrents easily and fast. Yet, since it’s hard to track what they have shares there are full of illegal contents sharing between users. As you wrote it’s a huge lost for publishers, writers, studios, and producers.
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