By definition, file sharing is the action involving the exchange of files and documents. While P2P filesharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. Waht the P2P technology does is to enable users share digital content by searching other computers with the same P2P technology that have the content the user is looking for.
In the New York Times article "Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios", the authors Brian Stelter and Brad Stone give us a P2P filesharing real example that involved the piracy of one of the most famous Warner Brothers films of all times, "The Dark Knight". Despite the antipiracy efforts Warner Brothers had taken to avoid illegal copies of the film be shared and reproduced, still millions of copies of the film were downloaded that same year. The file sharing technology used to share digital files such as movies, songs and TV shows is often a P2P technology called BitTorrent according to the article.
Some other examples of the P2P filesharing technology are BearShare, LimeWire and eMule.
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