The power of Peer-to-Peer communication
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Ever heard of the term Peer-to-Peer communication? Well, the chances are high you’re your answer may be negative, though it’s for sure that you know this concept without knowing its name and specifics, in recent past. When did you download a ring tone, wall paper, free movie or software over the internet last time? Sure thing, your answer won’t be more than a week to maximum a month or so.
Today, one may find thousands of websites offering free downloads such as movie clips, wall papers, ring tones, and lots more, while the torrent websites like mininova, isohunt, thepiratebay and the likes of them even offer cracked versions of full-strech movies, and expensive software, totally free of cost, thanks to the peer-to-peer communication concept.
With the help of peer-to-peer communications, data can be transferred from one user to the other. The uploaders, or the users who are transmitting information to be shared, are known as the seeders, while those who’re downloading the same, are known as peers, or simply the downloaders.
Though there have been many conflicts over this concept, especially regarding the online torrent platforms, such as isohunt, as these platforms are a good way of promoting piracy by allowing users to upload a purchased/licensed version of any premium paid software, free of cost, which could be used by millions of other users, causing loss to the vendor. But, no action could be taken as these torrent engines don’t undertake any agreement to check the contents of the torrent data uploaded by millions of user (it is practically impossible too).
Therefore, if you don’t want to really shell out your money on anything available at a considerable cost over the internet, you can give a shot to search on these torrent engines and the chances are high that you may find something or the other, which would be relevant to your needs.
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