File sharing is the distribution and access of digital information available in the web, such as videos, programs, images, documents, e-books, etc. Illicit file sharing represents a problem for the economy and entrepreneurs that the digital information is taken from. In the United States, millions of dollars in sales are lost from illegal file sharing; piracy is one of the biggest issues of file sharing. As David Choi and Arturo Perez mention in “ONLINE PIRACY AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW BUSINESS MODELS” In most cases, piracy is illegal; in all cases, it is unquestionably unethical.
P2P file sharing stands for Peer-to-Peer file sharing. As its name refers, it is the sharing of files between peers. It is done between people who are part of a network and they can download and see files posted by members of the same network. People, who use P2P, to post music, movies, e-books, etc. are often using a technology called BitTorrent, according to B. Stelter and B. Stone in their article “Digital Pirates Winning Battle with Studios” The New York Times. But there are several P2P websites, besides BitTorrent, P2P file sharing is done through Napster, Morpheus, Gnutella, Freenet, Skype among others.
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