P2P

File sharing is the act of downloading, uploading, or exchanging files over the internet. P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing is a little more complicated. Most P2P file sharing requires the use of a client such at BitTorrent in order to download files from other peers on the internet. It works in a way that multiple people with the same file keep an open connection to those files for others to access and download the parts of that file. An example of P2P file sharing can be sharing and downloading new-old movies. In the article "The BitTorrent Effect" Clive Thompson explains how BitTorrent can help people find movies a lot faster than searching for them in a store like Blockbuster. "As for movies, if you can find it at Blockbuster, you can probably find it online somewhere – and use BitTorrent to suck it down."