Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users...
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popularized by file sharing systems such as the music-sharing application Napster. The peer-to-peer movement allowed millions of Internet users to connect "directly...
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distributed peer-to-peer networking. File sharing technologies, such as BitTorrent, are integral to modern media piracy, as well as the sharing of scientific...
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December 15 – US Federal Trade Commission Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Workshop entitled Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protection and Competition...
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Glossary of BitTorrent terms (redirect from Seed (BitTorrent file sharing))
This is a glossary of jargon related to peer-to-peer file sharing via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions from...
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systematic review is: "the sharing economy is an IT-facilitated peer-to-peer model for commercial or non-commercial sharing of underutilized goods and...
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early 2000s, the term file sharing increasingly has become associated with peer-to-peer file sharing over the Internet. Shared file and printer access require...
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of file sharing networks, companies claim that peer-to-peer file sharing enables the violation of their copyrights. File sharing allows any file to be...
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pages with peer-to-peer fundraising, which the individual people will share with their own networks. Also known as crowdlending, many peer-to-peer loans are...
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hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking (see peer-to-peer file sharing). Sharing is a key feature in the developing field of...
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hosting. Peer-to-peer sharing is meant to help save bandwidth when sharing large files between two machines, as it is incredibly efficient at sharing data...
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Napster (redirect from Napster (peer-to-peer))
Napster was an American proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. Founded by Shawn...
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InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for sharing data using a distributed hash table to store provider...
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LimeWire (category File sharing software for Linux)
LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. Created by Mark Gorton in 2000, it was most prominently a...
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to prevent copyright infringement through file sharing. The organizations particularly target the distribution of files via the Internet using peer-to-peer...
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File sharing in Japan is notable for both its size and sophistication. The Recording Industry Association of Japan has used a 2010 study to suggest that...
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community-oriented file-sharing program Retroshare - a private F2F system based on PGP, implementing Turtle F2F file sharing. n2n - a peer-to-peer VPN software The...
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WinMX (category File sharing software)
freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn (president of Frontcode Technologies) in Windsor, Ontario (Canada). According to one...
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groups, including their use of social media, to better understand mechanisms such as information sharing and peer sanctioning. Sanctions can range from subtle...
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protocol and algorithm for a peer-to-peer distributed hash table. A distributed hash table stores key-value pairs by assigning keys to different computers (known...
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article contains a list and comparison of file sharing applications; most of them make use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies. This comparison also contains...
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EDonkey network (category File sharing networks)
server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network created in 2000 by US developers Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan that is best suited to share big files among users...
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Kazaa (category File sharing software)
stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd...
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Bitzi (category Articles to be expanded from June 2015)
Commons Attribution - Share Alike 2.0). Bitzi's standards and services have been adopted by a number of popular peer-to-peer file sharing systems. Bitzi was...
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the sharing economy Peer-to-peer file sharing Social peer-to-peer processes P2P economic system All pages with titles beginning with Peer-to-peer All...
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Anonymous P2P (redirect from Anonymous peer-to-peer)
anonymous P2P communication system is a peer-to-peer distributed application in which the nodes, which are used to share resources, or participants are anonymous...
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BearShare was a peer-to-peer-file-sharing-application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and also a rebranded version of iMesh...
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Protocol-based (UDP-based) variant of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol intended to mitigate poor latency and other congestion control problems...
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communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of...
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