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Distributed Peer-to-Peer

On the Internet, music sharing networks such as Kazaa and Napster worked on a peer-to-peer basis because there was no central coordinating computer: each user of the service was equal to every other user. Each person on the system has software that requests music files from other users, and handles requests from other users for files.

It is the peer-to-peer nature of services like Kazaa that infuriates and frustrates those trying to stop illegal music sharing. Because there are no central computers, no "head office", no single person in charge, stopping such services is a law-enforcement nightmare.

While Napster could be stopped because it did have centralised computers, Kazaa is tormenting copyright enforcers since every one of the millions of Kazaa users is a peer in the network.

In a way, Kazaa is a perfect example of how the Internet is defined — at any moment, Kazaa and the Internet are simply the sum total of all the people who are using them.

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networking > network types > distributed peer to peer

Distributed Peer-to-Peer

networking curriculum
support CD for senior
secondary studies