File sharing - What has it got for us now?
Key to Status: S = D/K. S is the status of a person in an organization, D is the number of doors he must open to perform his job, and K is the number of keys he carries. A higher number denotes higher status. Thus the janitor needs to open 20 doors and has 20 keys (S = 1), a secretary has to open two doors with one key (S = 2), but the president never has to carry any keys since there is always someone around to open doors for him (with K = 0 and a high D, his S reaches infinity).
We all know about file-sharing. In fact, it has been in practice right from the days storage devices hit the market. Everyone wanted to share files just as everyone shared useful information, breaking news and more desirably - gossips. The trend of sharing knowledge had been in place right since human beings started communicating with each other, and researches confirm this tendency also exists with other species too. This trend slowly began to creep into all inventions of humanity.
For instance, when tape recorders were invented, audio cassettes were shared. When VCRs and VCD Players were invented, video cassettes and CDs were shared. And now with the invention of CD and DVD writers - any kind of valid data can be shared. Everything works fine as long as what we copy and share, abide by the laws (which most often does not). File-sharing cannot be abolished completely. In many cases, file-sharing has been playing a key role in improving and maximizing the productivity of great industries. Just imagine if we had to key in a 100 pages of our assignment and had no means to transfer it to our workplace! It is definitely not feasible if we use a desktop computer - we cannot carry it over from place to place with those bulky equipments and complicated circuit of wiring.
All this being the case, the ultimate invention of "internet" could no longer hold back itself from this technology being "integrated" into it. In other words, "file-sharing" has become a word by itself, referring to files being shared over the internet. The wikipedia definition goes something like this...
"File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, and also over smaller networks..."
The advent of innovative secure and anonymous protocols such as UDP - User Datagram Protocol, I2P - An anonymous networking protocol along with our usual TCP - Transmission Control Protocol and P2P - Peer to Peer Protocol, provides totally enhanced and improved ways of sharing files over the internet. Sharing files over the internet, considering the amount of files being shared and the no. of users using this technology - being vast is not easy to be traced. Unless continuous monitoring is done on a particular IP address, it cannot be proved that computer holding that particular IP has shared a file. Nevertheless, this cannot be the case if the IP uses protocols like I2P and Free Haven which are totally stealth protocols.
Leaving apart these so-so complicated jargons, there is one single technology that could integrate itself with all these protocols - the Bit Torrent.
On my next post, you will find:
1. What is Bit Torrent and Where to find more information about it?
2. The terminologies used in it
3. The problems faced by the MPAA and consequently the Bit Torrent Network and
4. How does Bit Torrent manages to overcome all the worries imposed over it
Signing off for now,
We all know about file-sharing. In fact, it has been in practice right from the days storage devices hit the market. Everyone wanted to share files just as everyone shared useful information, breaking news and more desirably - gossips. The trend of sharing knowledge had been in place right since human beings started communicating with each other, and researches confirm this tendency also exists with other species too. This trend slowly began to creep into all inventions of humanity.
For instance, when tape recorders were invented, audio cassettes were shared. When VCRs and VCD Players were invented, video cassettes and CDs were shared. And now with the invention of CD and DVD writers - any kind of valid data can be shared. Everything works fine as long as what we copy and share, abide by the laws (which most often does not). File-sharing cannot be abolished completely. In many cases, file-sharing has been playing a key role in improving and maximizing the productivity of great industries. Just imagine if we had to key in a 100 pages of our assignment and had no means to transfer it to our workplace! It is definitely not feasible if we use a desktop computer - we cannot carry it over from place to place with those bulky equipments and complicated circuit of wiring.
All this being the case, the ultimate invention of "internet" could no longer hold back itself from this technology being "integrated" into it. In other words, "file-sharing" has become a word by itself, referring to files being shared over the internet. The wikipedia definition goes something like this...
"File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, and also over smaller networks..."
The advent of innovative secure and anonymous protocols such as UDP - User Datagram Protocol, I2P - An anonymous networking protocol along with our usual TCP - Transmission Control Protocol and P2P - Peer to Peer Protocol, provides totally enhanced and improved ways of sharing files over the internet. Sharing files over the internet, considering the amount of files being shared and the no. of users using this technology - being vast is not easy to be traced. Unless continuous monitoring is done on a particular IP address, it cannot be proved that computer holding that particular IP has shared a file. Nevertheless, this cannot be the case if the IP uses protocols like I2P and Free Haven which are totally stealth protocols.
Leaving apart these so-so complicated jargons, there is one single technology that could integrate itself with all these protocols - the Bit Torrent.
On my next post, you will find:
1. What is Bit Torrent and Where to find more information about it?
2. The terminologies used in it
3. The problems faced by the MPAA and consequently the Bit Torrent Network and
4. How does Bit Torrent manages to overcome all the worries imposed over it
Signing off for now,
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