Labels:book | chair | hakham | laptop | sky OCR: 338 SECTION D CHAPTER 6 who each might store and share dozen or fewer songs. Rather than store the actual files on 2 server, Napster stored only a list of song titles, with pointers to privately-owned computers from which files could be down- loaded. After contentious legal battle shut down Napster, other more decentralized technologies, such as Gnutella and eDonkey, emerged. One of the most recent popular file sharing technologies is called BitTorrent What is BitTorrent? BitTorrent is a file sharing protocol that distributes the role of file server across collection Qf dispersed computers. BitTorrent some sense an offshoot of etd computing concepts, in which an ad-hoc collection of personal computers located anywhere on the Internet can cooperate complete task normally handled by monolith ...
