File-sharing program
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File-sharing programs are used to directly or indirectly transfer filess from one computer to another over the Internet, over a smaller Intranet, or across simple networks usually following the peer-to-peer (P2P) model. A variety of file-sharing programss is available on several different networks. Availability depends partly on operating system, and different networks have different features (for example, multiple-source downloads, different sorts of search limiting, and so on). It is common for commercial file sharing clients to contain abrasive advertising software, or spyware.
Categories of clients: Centralized Clients: OpenNap* Benefits: Faster searching and downloading* Negatives: Often more vulnerable to legal and DDOS attacks - Decentralized clients: Gnutella
- * Benefits: Usually more reliable and rarely shut down
- * Negatives: Generally slower than centralized systems
- Decentralized tracker-based clients: Bittorrent
- * Benefits: Very fast due to concentration of bittorrent networks on a single file, is principally used to offer new, large files for download
- * Negatives: Not centrally searchable, tracker sites are often closed down or fail, not truly anonymous
- Multi-network clients
- * Benefits: allows connection to more than one network, almost always on the client side.
- * Negatives: often playing catch-up to individual networks' changes and updates.
- Anonymous peer-to-peer: Freenet, GNUnet, MUTE, I2P
- * Benefits: allows for the uncensored free flow of information and ideas
- * Negatives: due to anonymity it allows for questionable or illegal material to be exchanged easier than other networks, often slower than regular p2p because of the overhead
- Private file-sharing networks
List of file sharing protocols - HTTP
- FTP File Transfer Protocol
- Kermit
Operating system protocols - Network file system (NFS)
- Samba or Server message block (SMB)
- AppleShare
- IPX
Operating servers - Windows 2000 Server
- Linux
- Novell
- Mac OS X Server
Applications
By network protocol - FastTrack protocol
- *KaZaA
- *Grokster
- *KCeasy
- OpenFT protocol
- *giFT
- *KCeasy
- Edonkey Network protocol
- *eMule
- *mlDonkey
- *eDonkey2000
- *Overnet
- Freenet protocol
- *Freenet
- *Entropy, (P2P)
- GNUnet protocol
- *GNUnet
- *Freeway(p2p)
- Gnutella protocol
- *KCeasy
- *BearShare
- *Gnucleus
- *LimeWire
- *Morpheus
- *Shareaza
- *XoloX
Miscellaneous protocols - Bit Torrent (decentralized dynamic network of users)
- MUTE
- I2P
User agents - Mozilla
- CuteFTP
- Konqueror
- Internet Explorer
- IRC
Depot channels - Hotline
- Suprnova.org
Miscellaneous
File sharing comparison
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