P2P

As I sit here writing this blog while eating sharing size peanut M&Ms, I reflect on the thought that humans love to share. There are exceptions to everything, of course, but we are a social species that likes to interact with others like them, and a lot of the time this includes sharing what we enjoy (or don't enjoy)with others.

As I have mentioned multiple times in previous posts, and as it is widely known, New Media are used mostly as a means to communicate. This can be done in many different ways, be it from directly contacting others through social media or downloading a file of an episode of your favorite TV show that a stranger shared online. File sharing is a phenomenon where people allow other people's access to digital files. This is an umbrella term under which lie a number of different ways people or companies share digital media with others.

An example of a term under that umbrella is peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, where the network is decentralized, and it allows people to share digital media content directly with each other. For instance, according to an article called The BitTorrent Effect published by Wired, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program that allows people to share huge amounts of data by uploading and downloading the content. It is very easy and quick, sometimes taking as short as a few minutes. This can include movies, television shows, music, academic work, and even money transfers.

It is truly amazing to think about how vastly the internet and New Media are used, and so we must be careful about what we put out there.

Thanks for reading!

See you soon.

Nanar