File sharing and Peer to peer file sharing is basically ways to share files between massive numbers of people, a name casually worn by P2P is piracy because you usually see file sharing as a method to give someone else an expensive program they cant afford or watch a blockbuster movie for free. this is basically one of the most common illegal deeds most people end up doing, because it's very easy to do.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05piracy.html
Several factors contributed to the widespread adoption and facilitation of peer-to-peer file sharing. These included increasing Internet bandwidth, the widespread digitization of physical media, and the increasing capabilities of residential personal computers. Users were able to transfer either one or more files from one computer to another across the Internet through various file transfer systems and other file-sharing networks
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