P2P File Sharing

File sharing is the act of sharing information/data among people, companies, and essentially one computer to another. Think of how music, documents, videos, images, spreadsheets, among others are being dispatched others. Email and Texting are examples of file sharing, in addition Dropbox users upload files for others to download. In the article, “Content Producers Should Take Advantage of P2P, Not Fear It" written by NMA staff, details how music, films, books etc., can only be uploaded, downloaded, and shared by those who have the software, this is known as  P2P File sharing (peer to peer). Often the case with P2P file sharing, besides being easy to acquire is the fact that majority of the files are being illegally shared.