Can piracy via P2P be stopped?
Should it? Peer to peer (P2P) has been around for a long time now. Big software, music and movie corporations are against the piracy it fosters, users love it and pirates thrive on the notoriety it brings them. In our networked society, P2P accounts for the majority of the chit-chat (data transfer) globally. Studies have revealed that P2P networks, especially BitTorrent, accounts for over half the bandwidth used globally; so much so that standard Web surfing (HTTP) is nowhere in the same league. So what’s behind all the exabytes of data that’s changed hard drives across the globe? Why is P2P so popular, and how will it change the future of the Net? A Little History Traditionally, the Internet is based on servers and clients. Thinkdigit.com resides on a server, which “serves” up files and content to anyone who wants it (the clients). The interface used by the clients to get this information is a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc. The data transfer protocol is c
