What is File Sharing & How Does it Work?

File sharing basically means sharing data or files across the internet. In the early days, it was done through a complicated client/server model but now it is done with the Peer-to-Peer mode. Peer-to-Peer or commonly known as P2P is a method of sharing data from one person to another across the internet.

As P2P technology evolved, many softwares that support P2P for transferring data efficiently was created. Some of the most popular and widely used file sharing softwares are torrents like BitTorrent and