Fslite is the backend software for this service and is available in many flavours of Windows as well as some flavours of Linux. The service is available for both Windows and Linux operating systems. See Napster, KaZaA, BitTorrent, Dark Web and P2P TV.Kazaa Lite from Kazaa is a relatively new service which aims to combine file sharing, file compression and online access all into one package. In 2003, Napster was resurrected into a legitimate service competing with other online music stores such as iTunes (and Yahoo! Music Jukebox (formerly MusicMatch) (Although Apple legally sold more than a billion songs from its iTunes music service in 2006, it was estimated that more than 15 billion copyrighted songs were illegally shared or downloaded from websites in that same year.įile sharing systems are architected in different ways as outlined in the following illustrations. Almost every song ever recorded has been uploaded to some music sharing venue. Users upload copyrighted songs to a central server, a group of servers or to selected user computers, and people download the files that are available.
Originally for music files, and subsequently for videos, this type of sharing was popularized by the famous Napster service as well as Gnutella (Grokster (KaZaA (and others. (2) Using the Internet as the world's largest file sharing network. However, files and folders can also be assigned a "read/write" status that allows either selected users or all users on the network to change them. All client versions of Windows, Mac and Linux can function as nodes in a peer-to-peer network and allow their files to be shared.įiles and folders can be configured to allow network users to copy them, but not alter them in their original location, which is a common safety precaution. Peer-to-peer networks are quite common in small offices that do not use a dedicated file server. (1) A network of computers configured to allow certain files and folders to be shared with everyone or with selected users.
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