What is Peer-to-Peer Networking?
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking refers to networks in which peer machines distribute tasks or workloads among themselves. P2P networks are commonly used on the Internet to directly share files or content between two or more machines. Content-sharing P2P networks include BitTorrent, Gnutella2, and eDonkey. P2P applications often, but don't always, take the same names as the networks they run on. These include BitTorrent, PopcornTime, and eMule.
Content-sharing P2P networks are used to share music and videos over the
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