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Steal This File Sharing Book tackles the thorny issue of file sharing networks such as Kazaa, Morpheus, and Usenet. It explains how these networks work and how to use them. It exposes the dangers of using file sharing networks--including viruses, spyware, and lawsuits--and tells how to avoid them.
In addition to covering how people use file sharing networks to share everything from music and video files to books and pornography, it also reveals how people use them to share secrets and censored information banned by their governments. Includes coverage of the ongoing battle between the software, video, and music pirates and the industries that are trying to stop them.
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WALLACE WANG
San Francisco
Copyright 2004 by Wallace Wang.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America on recycled paper
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Publisher: William Pollock
Managing Editor: Karol Jurado
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Cover and Interior Design: Octopod Studios
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Compositor: Riley Hoffman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wang, Wally.
Steal this file sharing book : what they won't tell you about file sharing / Wallace Wang.
p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-59327-050-X
1. Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) I. Title. TK5105.525.W36 2004
004.6'5--dc22
2004013806
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to all the recording artists, movie studios, and other copyright holders who find their works traded over file sharing networks. Their creations have helped make file sharing networks as useful as they are today, so the next time you download a file that you find particularly useful, support your favorite artists, movies, authors, and so on by buying their products so they can continue to create more useful files that you and everyone else can enjoy for the future.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
A computer file can be anything from a single song to a photograph, a full-length motion picture, the complete text from a book, or a computer program that sells for thousands of dollars. Because a computer file is made up of electronic data, all it does is fill up the space on your hard drive. And large hard drives are really cheap today, which means you can fill them up with many, many files at relatively little cost. Storing this stuff is just not an issue.
Computer files can also be copied with perfect accuracy and transferred flawlessly to nearly any computer in the world. In most industries, such qualities might be admirable, but in the computer industry, those same qualities spell trouble for copyright holders. If someone can make multiple copies of a song, a book, or a computer program at no cost, what will stop people from blatantly copying everything they own and passing it around to all their friends?
The answer is simple: nothing. And thats spelled trouble for the computer industry. Of course, people have been illegally copying music with tape recorders and CD burners for years, but cassette tapes and CDs arent as easy to distribute as a single file that you can email or post on a file sharing network for millions of people to copy at once.
Similarly, photocopying has threatened the copyright on books, but photocopying an entire book is usually more trouble (and more expense) than its worth. Plus, most people like their books bound, rather than in loose sets of not always perfectly copied pages.
The same can be said for the video cassette recorder, which spawned the copying of videos. But as with audio tapes, each copy of a video cassette loses some of its original quality. Its also simply too troublesome for the average user to duplicate videos on a mass scale and distribute them.
But once you store something in a computer file, copying suddenly becomes easy and fast for everyone. Instead of asking, Can it be copied? people ask, Where can I find it? And the answer is usually somewhere online where people can copy and distribute files fast.
If something can be copied, it probably already has been, and its just a matter of knowing where to look for it on the Internet. Although most people think of the Internet as nothing more than pretty websites and email, its really a network that connects computers.
The Internet has revolutionized the way people share files. In the old days, sharing files meant physically handing a copy of a floppy disk to another person, but with the Internet, sharing files can be as simple as pressing a button.
With people able to share files so easily, sharing files no longer requires technical knowledge as much as it requires motivation. Some people share files because they like the idea of getting back at big corporations by not paying for the copyrighted files that they duplicate and distribute to others. Others share because they just want a copy of a particular song or program, and they dont want or cant afford to pay for it. Still a few people share files in blissful ignorance of the fact that duplicating copyrighted files is actually illegal.
So over the past decade, people have found various ways to share files, always staying just one step ahead of the law. Heres a look at some of the more popular methods of file sharing.
Before the Internet, people used to share files through electronic bulletin board systems, otherwise known as BBSs. Basically, a BBS was nothing more than a computer hooked up to one or more phone lines that allowed anyone from around the world to call in. Once you called into a BBS, you could download files to your computer or upload files from your computer to the BBS for other people to copy.
While BBSs were once popular, their technical limitations prevented widespread file sharing. First, each caller had to pay their own phone charges to connect to a BBS, which meant that most BBS users tended to live in the city where the BBS was located, although some of the larger and more popular BBSs attracted the occasional long distance or overseas user.
Since the only way to connect to a BBS was through a telephone line, people found sharing files through a BBS inconvenient because telephone lines are notoriously slow for transferring huge files. Although people could still share files through a BBS, the files spread slowly and could take days, months, or even years just to reach someone else in another part of the country.
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