Peer to peer sharing
i. Specific Innovation of Interest:
Peer to peer sharing is a platform for people to use the internet to share files. The original pioneering p2p internet service was Napster that focused on sharing of MP3 format audio files. Companies such as Gnutella, Madster, Freenet took carried on with the idea. Currently, the most popular form of peer to peer sharing is bittorrent. (deinfition of bit torrent).
ii. Rationale for Selecting this Innovation:
Peer to peer has changed the world in more ways than one. For one, it has made available files which cannot be afford. Expensive softwares, music, videos etc. Currently there are more than a 100 million users and has BitTorrent has a greater number of users than YouTube and Facebook combined. Twitter and Facebook uses BitTorrent to distribute updates, without BitTorrent these companies will be very different.
iii. Proposed Approach to Development of Paper:
Historical Perspective
-Examine Napster as the original sharing website.
-Evolution due to legal issues.
Current Situation
-Current usage of peer to peer sharing. Eg. Facebook
Future Considerations
-More and more mobile phones, ipads will use it.
Hi Clement,
ReplyDeleteI'm supposed to help you to review your outline and here it goes..
I find your topic rather interesting. But is it true that BitTorrent has greater number of users than Youtube and Facebook combined? Because that will really be a massive figure, given that there are 700 million users on Facebook alone.
Though there are lots of benefits from p2p sharing, i guess you can consider if it will be sustainable in the long run. I was wondering, given that people can share softwares for free, is it sustainable for the companies that developed these softwares.
As for future consideration, i think you may want to talk about how companies can utilize such platforms, to enhance productivity.