File sharing is practice of distrubuting electronic files (docs, music, videos and etc.) through Internet. It is used to share useful information for business or to share files for entertainment purposes.
P2P file sharing is form of file sharing that involves users exchanging e-files directly through Web. P2P is a technique that enables many connected computers work as one sharing not only data but also hardware resources that can be accessed remotely.
Examples of this can be file sharing web site like RapidShare, Kazaa, The Pirate Bay, and software like BitTorrent. According to "The BitTorrent Effect" article from WIRED, BitTorrent allows sharing files that are stored on ones computer with everyone else, and what's special about this software is that by using P2P technique it allows to download files from different sources that are located in different place simultaneously increasing the speed of the download from hours to minutes.
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