I agree on both points, P2P sharing other than becoming increasingly illegal
opens your computer up to every type of problem that the internet has to
offer. Personally when I find the need for downloading files from these
networks I
use a computer that I have setup and isolated on my network. And I prefer the
'Lite' versions of these programs like Kazaa and Ares, they contain less if
none at all Spyware, Spam, etc.. This however does not protect you from bad
file
download.
David Witucki
MCP, Net+, A+
(517) 974-8491
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
- Mark Twain
In a message dated 2/14/2005 6:38:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
tdouglasp@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> The societal issue I chose was peer-to-peer file sharing. It does have
> it's advantages such as: it gives you the ability to get programs and files
> at
> the convenience of your own home and it is free. The disadvantage is that is
> illegal for some of the things you can use it for such as movie and music
> file sharing. Aslo a disadvantage is that some people put files on to share
> that contain viruses. If you are interested in file sharing, one good place
> to
> go would be www.kazaa.com
>
>
> Tyrell Potts