P2P

File sharing it's been one of the most uses it things in new media. People is able to share their data just with an internet connection among many computers such as computer programs, pictures, video, documents anything from computer to other.

File sharing became more common with the past of the years that today we have a lot of websites which allow us to share media such as iCloud, dropbox, google drive, one drive just for mentioned the most common. All of these platform that allow people to share data have a free subscription but in case we need more space we can pay for extra storage. The implement of file sharing have helped a lot to people for example I remember when I was trying to send a video o a friend through email it was impossible back then unless you have a flash drive , it's maybe for this reason that people tend to don't use flash drive and CD anymore, they cost a lot of  less money  than before, their depreciation cost when down after the internet implemented the file sharing through just the cloud.

If you're a college or high student you must be familiarized with the P2P, which means peer to peer networks. When your STEAM professor it's using the computer and you're able to see the documents the professor has or viceversa  it's nothing more that implement of P2P. Some use for this kind of network are file sharing, instant messaging, voice communication, collaboration, backup. Each computer in a P2P network becomes a files server as well as a client with the only requirement to have a internet connection and a P2P software.


I personal use a lot the file sharing and the P2P network, specially for my favorite hobby, music. Sometimes, when I'm working in a music and a need a collaboration the software that I used allowed this files collaboration and my friend and I computer to be connected so we can modified the work that we're doing. On other Hand, not everything look good with the file sharing and the P2P connection because it's more easy for hackers to get into the computers once they can detect a network try to hack it, this is the only negative aspect about this kind of networks it could break the wall between privacy and what you want other people to see but it's always possible to have a secure connection as long as it well worked. For example according tot he article "Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" published in the New York Times by Eric P Fanner he mentioned " On Friday, a judge in Stockholm is expected to rule on whether four people connected with a popular file-sharing service, the Pirate Bay, are guilty of criminal violations of copyright law" this a clear example of how our information could be stole it. In this case these people are accused of stole information from Pirate Bay. If people can steal information from big companies like this they can definitely steal your information.

File sharing and P2P networks are really good sources allowing us to work together, people just need to make sure they're having a secure connection. Once people feel good about their connections it's always recomendable use this kinds of networks whenever they're needed.