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common enabler of the exchange of illegal data. Peer-to peer file exchange occur both physically through the use of USB drives and CD’s as well as over the internet, through the use of e-mails, shared files and torrents. We then took a look at existing piracy threats focusing mainly on torrents and laws implemented to help discontinue notorious piracy

of a particular torrent’s information and may actively maintain torrents’ health. The actual “torrents” are small files that tell the client where to find the actual files. People who have the actual files and are willing to allow you to download from them are called “seeds.” Seeds help the growth of the torrent by spreading its information to people who are downloading it, called “leechers.” Everyone beginning to download a torrent is initially a leecher. Some trackers may cut your download off

Dylan Crees Iowa State University Philosophy 343 - Dr. Tsou May 4th, 2016 P2P File Sharing of Copyrighted Material Introduction Anyone who owns a computer that has a reliable internet connection can potentially download a torrent client and participate in peer-to-peer file sharing. Using a web browser to download files from websites is a lot different than downloading files from peers because instead of obtaining the files from a web server you are obtaining the files directly from ordinary computers

Digital music piracy has been a worry of the music industry since the creation of Napster in 1998. Piracy is the act of stealing something that does not belong to you which has been outlined in our society as something that is bad or against the law. There are many articles out there that highlight music piracy but four main important ones include: “The Music Industry on (the) Line? Surviving Music Piracy in a Digital Era” by Jelle Janssens, “Neutralizing Music Piracy: An Empirical Examination” by

content that is on the file sharing account. Peer to peer, P2P, is sharing that allows you to access files such as books, music, movies, and games. Bit torrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol for sharing large amounts of data over the Internet. All of these resources are surprisingly not illegal and can be used by anyone. Bit torrent transfers data between each other without the need for a central server. P2P disburses application architecture that divides tasks or work-loads between

of a much larger file at the same time, sharing their pieces with other people who are downloading the file while acquiring new pieces. This process is guided by a very small file called a torrent that permits this transfer to take place by acting similar to a radio frequency. Downloading and running this torrent file will allow you to participate in the information exchange this allows the file transfer to be much faster, seeing as multiple incoming sources exist simultaneously as outgoing sources

ABSTRACT The unique attributes of certain applications lend themselves amicable to the peer-computing model. Peer-computing applications make efficient use of computing resources around the "edge" of the network. The efficiency of peer-computing networks is enhanced by the availability of higher distributed storage capacity and computational cycles. Certain applications take advantage of direct connection between peer devices, thereby improving the efficiency of the communication link. In this paper

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is a network of computers that have the capability of being either a client or a server. Furthermore, P2P is the use of your own personal computer for the purpose of more than just basic client only tasks. Peers on a network are able to share resources, storage space, and processing power directly available to others hosts on the network without the need of a centralized communications model like the client/server model. Each user of the network is both a supplier and

A swarm is a group of computers that all have the desired torrent file available for downloading. Computers enter the swarm by accessing a torrent file (file extension is generally .torrent) via a torrent client such as BitTorrent, uTorrent, Vuze, Transmission, or many others. Trackers are located inside torrent files that keep track of connected computers. The tracker communicates with the other computers in the swarm and shares their

contradictions are located. Poe has made many of the word have double meanings, for example the word “torrent”. “From the torrent, or the fountain-” torrent could either mean fast moving waters, which would contradict with a fountain's water, or it could mean a sudden and violent outburst of words or feelings, which could fit it with the theme of him not have such extreme emotions. The word “torrent” also fits in with the extended nature metaphor. Poe uses the extended metaphor to show all the contrasting