P2P File Sharing

1. What is file sharing?
1. File sharing is to share file in a community. For example, a website like 4 shared is a place to share file. A user uploads a file to the website, than another user can download the file as whenever he/she wants to download the file.As described in the article by Eric Pfanner, Rapid share is one of the biggest form of file sharing. Rapidshare, is a file hosting serice that allows users to upload large files that cannot be send thru email.
2. What is P2P File sharing?
1. P2P file sharing is an acronym, meaning Peer to Peer sharing. In this situation, there is no "middle man" and either user can communicate directly. Within this communication, the users can can share files and folders among-st each other
3. What are some examples of P2P file sharing?
1.  One of the largest P2p file sharing was Limewire. Limewire was shutdown a few years ago because of its large amount of traffic it brought in and the amount of illegal file sharing was at an all time high. The next P2P software are torrents. torrents allow the users to directly download and upload files. They are referred to as a seeder and a leecher.