Anyone with a computer and access to the Internet has probably heard all about Peer-to-Peer or P2P systems. The controversy on P2P systems, is that these systems to exploit the benefits of a network of people all connected by their systems online and share the information in the team as a group. To have the same form of P2P software loaded in computer systems, the network of users can easily pass along many forms of electronic files, such as music, software and files to video format. Each program includes some its own set of functions that allow users in a particular network to share files and instructions. The network of users can be small, with only a few individuals or very large, with groups of computer users in the millions of people. The software needed to be able to access to other users of P2P systems generally provided free of charge, while these free programs may be emerging advertisements which sometimes in exchange for free software.

Each user individually in this form of computer network serves as a liaison to other users and all also share files. With no central file server, the network, users can share all the files as. When we talk about the buzz of P2P systems, what we are really talking about is that many users of computers have adopted this aspect to be connected to the Internet and millions of other users. When once, these users were unhappy to have a few songs downloaded from the Internet, they now have thousands of them downloaded and in their hard drives or MP3 players. The frenzy is growing day by day and seems to be no end to the amount of download files in P2P systems. Several journals and magazines online a report on the controversy on P2P systems in almost all the issues of their publications. This is because it is a very popular subject among many computer users.

The controversy on P2P systems seems to be focused on the widespread use of many programs sofware that we should allow that many computer users a distribution network upload and download files between drives on the network. The ability of these P2P programs to enable users to download and share files of any default while they remain virtually anonymous is that the main reason is so popular. These programs allow the user the possibility of allowing other users to download files from your hard disk or limit of downloads for certain records or to not accept download to everyone.

This final choice may affect the ability to operate without problems between some users of the network and may even limit their ability to download by other users of the computer on the network. The way that these programs are configured is that if you share files with others, can more easily download files from the network. Do not allow others to download from you, your ability to get the files from the network can be limited to a download speed very slow, or some files.

Some of these rumours about the safety concerns of the P2P network equipment and systems users who use software to other computer hard disk drives. The ability of users unscrupulous to load viruses and other attacks on the network of users always is, but many people has become very adept at this form of attack in files downloaded from the detection system. Just used to scan all files downloaded with a program of virus confidence before the opening, the chances of downloading a file of viruses on your hard disk be much smaller.