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other subjects > arts and humanities > music > youth music culture > file sharing among peer groups
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file sharing among peer groups  

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  • Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are networks of computers that allow users to directly search for and download files (such as audio and video files) from other computers in the network. The popular but now defunct Napster was not a true P2P network because individual computers in the network searched a centralized server for music files and then downloaded those files from the computers that hosted them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Peer Groups, File Sharing Among]

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