Analysis of P2P File-Sharing Services: Companies, Tech, and Review

This assignment provides an overview of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, identifying five companies that provide these services. The assignment discusses the core functionality of P2P file sharing, including the creation of efficient architectures for file transfer between devices. The solution details five key P2P file-sharing companies: BitTorrent, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, and KazaA, outlining their services and technical aspects. BitTorrent is highlighted as a leading service, detailing its technical status, software used, industry classification, and customer reviews. The assignment also includes relevant references to support the analysis. The solution provides a comprehensive understanding of P2P file-sharing services, their providers, and associated technologies.

P2P File-Sharing Services

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QUESTION 1 FIND FIVE COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE PEER TO PEER FILE-SHARING SERVICES.....................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................5

QUESTION 1 FIND FIVE COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE PEER
TO PEER FILE-SHARING SERVICES
Peer to peer file sharing services is based on the application which helps for creating an
effective architecture to share file from one device to another. Peer to peer service or protocol
create TCP connection which sends the request on server side and HTTP response to client side.
For client side, it will receive the messages (Letunic and Bork, 2017). There are different type of
organizations that provides peer to peer file sharing protocol discuss in followings:
Bit Torrent- Torrent provides peer to peer services to share different files such as new videos,
music, audio, movie etc.
Dropbox- drop box organization provides peer to peer services for sharing services provided
such as document file, audio and video with the help of cloud server.
Google drive- google drive provided peer to peer services for distributing document file, images,
videos and audio files.
i cloud- Apple is provided i cloud peer to peer services which helps for sharing file from one
device to another.
KazaA – KazaA is the organization which provides peer to peer network for sharing the files
and also provides facilities to their user to download file effectively and efficiently.
According to case study, it can be determined that torrent is the best organization to
provide an effective quality of services to their customers. It is one well known system for peer
to peer file sharing (Peer to peer services, 2017). Many customers over 70 million download file
in every minutes. The software is available for different platforms such as Linux, windows and
mac operating system.
Technical status- Torrents is a popular company which helps for user to provide the best
services and facilities. This organization provides distributed hash table technology with each
and every torrent client (Costea and et.al., 2017). There are some important steps for running the
torrent software.
 Start to run tracker
 Start to run ordinary web server like Apache.

 Associate with extension .torrent on web server
 generate a meta-info which helps for server the complete file on tracker
 put into metinfor on web server
 Start download
Technical software used:
 Linux, Mac
 Windows versions
 App studio.
Bit torrent 7.2 is based on multi operating system to provide the best services such as sharing an
effective videos and files.
Industry – torrent is the fastest growing organization to expand their business all over world.
Torrent organization concern about their services. (Bedarf and et.al., 2017 ). Torrent is a private
industry established in 1992. It can be classified as non- government company. The director of
organization is Swati and Kumar singhania.
Customer reviews- There are 20 million people downloaded the file by using torrent because it
provides the best quality of services to their customer.
Positive review:
 It is easy for user to search any type of content and information.
 It is helpful for download different movie, games, videos for adults and children.
 It is very efficient technique to understand their features and their property.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bedarf, J.R., and et.al., 2017. Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome
changes in early stage L-DOPA-naïve Parkinson’s disease patients. Genome
medicine. 9(1). p.39.
Costea, P.I and et.al., 2017. Towards standards for human fecal sample processing in
metagenomic studies. Nature biotechnology. 35(11). p.1069.
Letunic, I. and Bork, P., 2017. 20 years of the SMART protein domain annotation
resource. Nucleic acids research. 46(D1). pp.D493-D496.
Online
Peer to peer services, 2017. [online] available
through:<https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peertopeer-p2p-service.asp>