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What's the technology behind P2P ?

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dollar
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What's the technology behind p2p ?
How we can gets files from others in p2p softwares like lime wire , Shareaza etc (I am not talking about torrents clients) . Is it same as torrents ?
How share files in p2p softwares ?

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raphoenix
raphoenix
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dollar,
This may be inclusive answer to your questions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer
Kindest Regards,
Rick P. ♥ :)

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jack7h3r1pp3r
jack7h3r1pp3r
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torrents are a bit different in how they work because they have trackers which track the people who have the files and instead of just downloading the files from start to finish you download them in pieces and different pieces from a group of people who are seeding the files

more info here

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