File sharing

A community portal about File sharing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share. Sometimes these two activities are linked together. P2P File sharing is distinct from file trading in that downloading files from a P2P network does not require uploading, although some networks either provide incentives for uploading such as credits or force the sharing of files being currently downloaded.

Write an Article

RSS

Cash Incentives Awaits File-Sharers In Pirate Bay

Written by ravencin on

From: bittorrentdir.com

Swedish-based Global Gaming Factory (GGF), the new owner The Pirate Bay, said on Wednesday that file-sharers will actually be paid for sharing a file in its website.

GGF chief executive officer Hans Pandeya, in an interview with British Broadcasting Corporation, said that the cash incentives for users are all part of the new scheme that the Pirate Bay management will be implementing to combat the ever persistent “illegal” downloading and sharing of files in the internet.

He said that not only it can generate profit for people who share their file in the website; it can also help optimize the Internet traffic for downloaders.

Earlier reports told that GGF, a Swedish software company, bought the file-sharing website to the tune of $7.8 million following the “guilty” verdict on three of its founders.

However, recent reports said that GGF bought the domain for only 60 million kronor or £4.7 million.

Pandeya expressed hopes for the new management of the site, saying that they do not intent to change its innovative platform.

He said that the only difference is that the files that will be shared in the website will be hosted “legally”.

In recent years, the website was being singled out by music, movie, and other industry players of “illegally” sharing copyrighted materials in its Internet domain.

But Pandeya stressed that they are now listing the names of the companies and will start to discuss the issue to make “everything legal” in the website.

“The only thing that can attract the users with the new format of the website is to give them an incentive for sharing a file.Instead of free file-sharing, we will actually pay them for that,” Pandeya said in an interview.

He added that it is the only way that content providers’ demand will be met while still keeping the number of users visiting the website.

Previous Article Next Article