P2P

File sharing is a practice of providing access to stored information. File sharing can be done on many ways; for example, the P2P networks and other hosted website service on internet. A common known file hosting service website, RapidShare, allows users to upload documents through email, so that others can easily download from the webpage.

Peer-to-Peer(P2P) network on the other hand, is another way of sharing information. Users can share their files without the need of a central server under P2P. Example of a P2P software would be BitTorrent, where provide users the access to the P2P network once the program is installed. 

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Pfanner, Eric. Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?" The New York Times, April 13, 2009, p. B4. From

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/technology/internet/13iht-piracy13.html