File sharing is a way of allocating digital information via internet by using different types of digital file sharing programs. According to Wikipedia “File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images, & video), documents, or electronic books.” One way of file sharing is by using P2P file sharing software over the internet by accessing others peers computer to download or share files, computer programs, etc… There are many types of P2P programs that allow users easily download computer programs, music, and digital files for free. Some examples of P2P file sharing programs are BitTorrent, LimeWire, eMule, Soluseek to name a few. P2P file sharing can be used both legally and illegally. In the past few years illegal downloading of music on MP3and films have become a big problem for entitlement industries. The article “Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios” explains how easy it is to illegally download and watch new films in this case “The Dark knight” that was made available by “anonymous pirates who put the film online and enabled millions of Internet users to view it.” This shows that since P2P sharing program does not depend on using the central server to file sharing, it would be hard to track the origination of the file that made it available for everyone to download and share.
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