Peer-to-Peer
A new information sharing technique that emerged through Internet music-sharing communities such as Napster is called peer-to-peer (P2P). The term peer-to-peer is actually borrowed from a related configuration on LAN networks, in which services are decentralized and every computer acts as both a client and a server. The Internet peer-to-peer form allows computers throughout the network to share data in datasharing communities. In other words, the data doesn’t come from a single web server serving requests from a multitude of clients. Instead, the data resides on ordinary PCs throughout the community.
If you have read this book carefully, you might be wondering how this peer-to-peer scenario I’ve just described is any different from ...
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