Multimedia File Sharing. Santini, S. In Encyclopedia of Multimedia, pages 538–542. Springer US, 2008. 00000
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DefinitionIn multimedia file sharing we define two, quite separate, modalities: one, which we might call private file sharing, consists in being able to send multimedia files to a well identified person or to a small group of well identified persons; the other, which we might call public file sharing, consists in publishing multimedia files so that an unspecified number of possible unknown people may copy them.BackgroundFile sharing, in one form or another, is as old as computer networks. Programs such as uucp (unix to unix copy) and, later, ftp (from the file transfer protocol that it used) constituted the early means through which files were shared among network users. The birth of open source software, and the creation of communal development projects was facilitated and, to a certain extent, made possible by these programs, which allowed people located even at a great distance from one another to work on the same project, and to other people to enjoy the fruits ...
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	title = {Multimedia {File} {Sharing}},
	copyright = {©2008 Springer-Verlag},
	isbn = {978-0-387-74724-8 978-0-387-78414-4},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_138},
	abstract = {DefinitionIn multimedia file sharing we define two, quite separate, modalities: one, which we might call private file sharing, consists in being able to send multimedia files to a well identified person or to a small group of well identified persons; the other, which we might call public file sharing, consists in publishing multimedia files so that an unspecified number of possible unknown people may copy them.BackgroundFile sharing, in one form or another, is as old as computer networks. Programs such as uucp (unix to unix copy) and, later, ftp (from the file transfer protocol that it used) constituted the early means through which files were shared among network users. The birth of open source software, and the creation of communal development projects was facilitated and, to a certain extent, made possible by these programs, which allowed people located even at a great distance from one another to work on the same project, and to other people to enjoy the fruits ...},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2016-05-03},
	booktitle = {Encyclopedia of {Multimedia}},
	publisher = {Springer US},
	author = {Santini, Simone},
	editor = {Furht, Borko},
	year = {2008},
	note = {00000},
	pages = {538--542}
}

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