P2P File Sharing

What is file sharing? In the early ages of ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency), what is known today as the Internet, it is funded by the Department of Defense (DOD) to be used for military purposes and is used by scientists and technologist to share information from their researches. Later become ARPANET as the result of successfully connecting multiple computers to share information. As it continues to develop and have gotten public attention, it is now what we known as the Internet that connects all computers regardless of their geographic location. "It is important to note that the early adopters of the Internet, many of whom were technologists and scientists, strongly believed in the idea of sharing information for mutual benefit...the Internet was created by the government for the purpose of sharing information for scientific discovery", says in the article "Online Piracy and the Emergence of New Business Models" by David Choi and Arturo Perez. As a result, file sharing means one's ability to access the codes to the system and is free to use the system to their own best advantage, and then have their discoveries from research available in the system for other users to have access to. Therefore, file sharing is to ensure all the Internet users to share as to communicate with each other about each of their contributions and discoveries from research. It is also a way of organizing information in one place for ease to access in the long run.

What is P2P File sharing? As mentioned in previous post, that the Internet exist as a system that opens resouces to all users that its purpose is to continue to improve the system for any creative ways to use it. It was meant to be a public project where all its sources including system codes and data is make available to any user who wishes to access it, and the rule of the game is to share all findings by having all information stored in the system available to public access for users and to make future improvements. Therefore, P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing has it in its name that it is from one user to another in an open platform where it allows all Internet users are free to access the information, and it ensures those who find a new and creative ways to utilize the system to share information as well as to share accesses to the advantages with the rest of its community and so on. P2P file sharing can be understands as an unofficial way to share information within the community of internet users that operates solely on the users' will to share and on the bases of free to access.

Today, P2P file sharing is what makes up a relatively large percentage of the amount of traffic on the Internet. For example, YouTube was first used as a free online platform where users can share video contents of any sorts that they have the legal rights to possess. And by uploading the video content onto YouTube, other users who visits the website can access and view those contents free of charge. Thus, the user who uploads the content is sharing it with the community build on the website as well as benefiting the entire community of Internet users who can now have access to that specific content free of charge any time they want to.