P2P

File sharing is when someone sends data or information of a file to each other. An email of my homework to a professor would be considered sharing my file. I think the reason its called sharing is because its an electronic asset/data can be duplicated so its never completely transferred to another person hence the "sharing" aspect. P2P stands for peer-to-peer and P2P file sharing is something thats been around for a while. For instance people are pooling resources of data to one person and it becomes a big web of file data transferring between people with the same file. This makes the process of downloading something like a file a lot faster because the file data is coming from multiple sources(Peers). Bit torrent for example allows data to be transferred over the internet and is a tool for finding people with those files to download it from. For example if you wanted to download music(illegally). Bit torrent helps you find peers who are hosting the music on their computers for other peers to find and allows you guys to share that music. With bit torrent, the more the merrier. Why? When there are multiple peers with the music file there will be more data funneled to you and making your download faster. Eventually when you receive the complete music file, you become a host(seed) and start sending out the completed music file that you downloaded to help others who are seeking the same file to download it off you. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html