What's the difference between a friend emailing you a song and downloading from a peer to peer dl site?

Question

dl = download

Answer 1

Trust and Speed.

You trust your friend to send you the song and not some embedded virus. Nobody tracks email attachments but many servers can now track .mp3 FTP exchanges from P2P networks.

It comes usually quicker and you don't have to concern yourself that the P2P sharer will go offline in the middle of your download.

We won't delve into the legality of it. Many years ago, the record companies didn't care if you bought the vinyl copy, then made a cassette copy for a friend, no big loss. Quality degraded with each copy made and with each playing of the tune.

With digital P2P exchanges, you get an exact duplicate, no sound degradation, and you can continue to make perfect copies, which cuts into the company's revenue if you share it with all your friends by iPod connect/transfer cables

Answer 2

If you get it via email, no one else contributes to the uploading, and no one else gets to download it. It works like a direct file-transfer between two parties. P2P sites usually work in a way in which you get pieces from different people, who are all getting pieces from you.

Morally/ethically, if file-sharing bothers you, getting it from a friend spreads it to only one person, while P2P networks make a piece of work available to anyone who downloads them. Also, if you get it from a friend, you are not contributing to the P2P culture directly.

With P2P, you can find different music from what you and your friend are into, also, which can be very nice sometimes:)

Answer 3

"ours" btw you're able to desire to nicely known what to not get carry of, which takes fact and alertness of elementary sense. do not get carry of something that asserts to be a song, yet is barely 25k to 1800k. those are spyware, undercover agent ware or worse. larger data sizes oftentimes, if not continually, point out the genuine deal... 2800k to 7000k, is ballpark.

Answer 4

peer to peer you might get sued.