Ethics in a Peer to Peer World
EITHER SHARE OR UNSHARE!
Throughout many years technology has been through a very speedy improvement and innovation stage and internet is one of the mostly improved products of technology. Use of internet has been increased by an enormous amount and its use depends on the demand of the user. Commercial use of internet includes many different areas and by the use of internet several vital programmes have been developed to aid businesses and make tasks easier, files easily and quickly accessible. Peer to peer computing can easily be said to be one of the most widely benefited network by businesses throughout the world. Peer to peer computing has been defined through several different definitions and the most common and appropriate one can be seen as is as follows; Peer to Peer networking or computing is a system which distributes the workloads and tasks among peers. Simply in other words it is a network through which the load of work and the assigning of tasks are done evenly. The use of this network the peers are even users and they are equally privileged.
The users of the worldwide shared resource, internet, are aware of the fact that the flow of information and documents are controlled by the servers and hosting companies, whereas with this networking system the peers can make their resources available to other users of the network as much as they wish. With the resource the system can provide the processing power, disk storage, network bandwidth and many others and these do not require the coordination of the controllers of internet such as the suppliers and servers of this indescribable service. Talking about the providers or in other words the hosts of internet, there are millions of them, however the number was not as high as today back in the days of the innovation of internet. Along with the internet which first came into being as a peer to peer networking in the 1960s, in the 1994s came appeared the network model and this massive improvement has reached
Throughout many years technology has been through a very speedy improvement and innovation stage and internet is one of the mostly improved products of technology. Use of internet has been increased by an enormous amount and its use depends on the demand of the user. Commercial use of internet includes many different areas and by the use of internet several vital programmes have been developed to aid businesses and make tasks easier, files easily and quickly accessible. Peer to peer computing can easily be said to be one of the most widely benefited network by businesses throughout the world. Peer to peer computing has been defined through several different definitions and the most common and appropriate one can be seen as is as follows; Peer to Peer networking or computing is a system which distributes the workloads and tasks among peers. Simply in other words it is a network through which the load of work and the assigning of tasks are done evenly. The use of this network the peers are even users and they are equally privileged.
The users of the worldwide shared resource, internet, are aware of the fact that the flow of information and documents are controlled by the servers and hosting companies, whereas with this networking system the peers can make their resources available to other users of the network as much as they wish. With the resource the system can provide the processing power, disk storage, network bandwidth and many others and these do not require the coordination of the controllers of internet such as the suppliers and servers of this indescribable service. Talking about the providers or in other words the hosts of internet, there are millions of them, however the number was not as high as today back in the days of the innovation of internet. Along with the internet which first came into being as a peer to peer networking in the 1960s, in the 1994s came appeared the network model and this massive improvement has reached
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