P2P File Sharing

Do you remember the days when people used floppy disk to share files from one computer to the other. Or when the internet was to slow that images on a website was a nightmare to load. Well those are a thing of the past, and with faster internet and better computers and a new era of digital technology people are sharing everything in the internet, whether its via email, Google docs, or illegal websites. File sharing over the internet has become very common, but while certain content is certainly acceptable to share, other is not. 

To share a video that you created over the internet with a group of friends is acceptable, but how would you feel if they began to share it with more people ? Some people might not mind, but when it comes to movie companies and record labels the illegal peer to peer sharing of their content is costing them millions of dollars in sales. P2P is a way of sharing files when your computer is connected to the internet and the program automatically shares your media with others who are searching a file that you have via a software program such as bit Torrent or other websites. Many years ago a program called Napster was created by three young men who wanted to allow people to share their music freely. The website ran into legal trouble and was forced to shut down. Today they run a more legal operation. Napster was a pioneer for P2P websites like the one created by Bram Cohen bit Torrent. The concept is the same except that Cohen discovered a way to have files to be downloaded faster then any other website, and because of the speed in which the large files transfer now it is not just musics that is being transferred but long media such as movies are being downloaded illegally on websites like this every day. The war on pirating and illegally downloading these files has been going on since 1999 when Napster launched and is a long way from being over since people have no problem trying to download movies and music for free.