P2P

File sharing is the process of having access to content of files, documents, images, and other forms of media from one person to another. Before the age of clouding computing, file sharing was limited to physical form and device's storage capacity. With the advancement in distributed technology such as Amazon's web service, Google cloud, and Dropbox, we can instantly upload files to the servers and then sending a sharing link to the others.

Peer-to-Peer sharing is another subset of file sharing, and the number of participants are limited, comparing to file sharing which anyone has access to the file/documents. Bit Torrent and The Pirate Bay are two notable examples of peer-to-peer sharing. In the article of "The Bit Torrent Effect", Bram Cohen, the inventor of Bit Torrent, share his ideas and philosophy of life and work. 

Bit Torrent allows users to do amazing things such as downloading and uploading of large files at speed much faster than usual. The project was initially used to initially used by programmers to swap around software / files for free, however later it was used to download large files such as movies, or event an entire season of shows. Cohen loves to play board games such as 'Amazons' to practice and sharp his thinking, and this skill helped him enormously in terms of solving complex issues and problems. 

Cohen also identified the bottom of Bit Torrent, that the speed to upload and download was very different, and therefore, by breaking up a large file across many users to upload, the process could speed up. Furthermore, Cohen also stated the protocol that encourage users to share their existing resources, and not keeping it for themselves, as the more you share your resources, the faster the download speed you will have too. 

Thompson, C. (2005, January 01). The BitTorrent Effect. Retrieved October 06, 2017, from https://www.wired.com/2005/01/bittorrent-2/