File sharing is the practice of, or ability to, transmit files from one computer to another over a network or the Internet using file-sharing software. P2P is the acronym for Peer to Peer. It refers to computer systems that communicate to each other through a network without passing through a central server; each computer on this network communicates with each other. An example of P2P file sharing is torrents. When you download a torrent you are using a central server to download your file from other users on the same network. Another example of this is pirating a movie, and uploading it to the Internet. Stetler states, "The culprits, in this case, are the anonymous pirates who put the film online and enabled millions of Internet users to view it."
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05piracy.html?referrer=&_r=0
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