P2P

File Sharing is an entity that a plethora of people are immensely familiar with. We file share on the daily basis. We can share movies, books, music, and even essays. In school, essay file sharing is the most popular. Instead of printing out the essay and handing it to the professor. One can simply file share and call it a day. However, new media is expanding upon the idea of file sharing with P2P File Sharing. 

P2P, peer to peer, file sharing is shaping the way people share files. It is a network where people connect to. This way no one has to directly send a file. However, if someone is connected to the network and is liking for a file, they can search all the computers on the connected network and use that file. No need for purchasing something if somebody already has it, right? 

Some example of P2P file sharing are movies and music. Those are the ones that are often searched for and looked for. However, it is noted in the article by Econsultantcy, that the television industry is hard for the P2P users to get a hold of due to its lack of a short to medium term. 

Yet, according to Econsultantcy, in their article, 'Content Producers Should Take Advantage of P2P, Not Fear It', "we need to stop asking how to stop people from enjoying our work and start asking how to help them do it. " It is claimed that artist or content producers are too concerned with the monetary way of distributing content and not about pure enjoyment. But, hey, everyone has to make ends meet, right?