How does file sharing work?
File sharing has changed a lot in the last several years. The first really notable case of file sharing was Napster where kids in colleges with high speed internet connections were sharing their entire musical library and it was transfering through a central hub. They would allow some of their music to be shared and they would take music from other people, and the hub would collect all of that music centrally. When Napster was banned and put out of business, initially that model changed, people realized that if file sharing pure network to pure network was going to survive, they needed to not be centralized. What that means is that each person's content is stored on their machines which means that each machine is connected to each other machine and a huge wide network of machines that are sharing, giving and taking music. If you shut one machine down, it doesn't matter, there is hundreds of others, this is akin to the music industry stomping out Napster is akin to stomping a cockroach that you see, not realizing that that's going to scare the other cockroaches into the corners. What happened when Napster was destroyed was that a centralized hub stopped happening and suddenly, there was no way to stop file sharing because it's hidden on every computer in every corner around the world.
