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    File Sharing on the Internet Essay

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    File Sharing on the Internet When we think of pirates, we see scruffy men with unshaven chins, a bandana, a gold earing, a black patch on one eye, and a wooden leg, men with guns in hand, riding the seas in their wooden ship proudly flying the terrifying skull and crossbones. Well, pirates these days look much different. In fact, you may be sitting by one right now. They are ordinary people who have come to enjoy the technologies the Internet provides. These pirates are boys and girls, women

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    Hierarchical File System From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HFS Developer Apple Computer Full name Hierarchical File System Introduced September 17, 1985 (System 2.1) Partition identifier Apple_HFS (Apple Partition Map) 0xAF (MBR) Structures Directory contents B-tree File allocation Bitmap Bad blocks B-tree Limits Max. volume size 2 TB (2 × 10244 bytes) Max. file size 2 GB (2 × 10243 bytes) Max. number of files 65535 Max. filename length 31 characters Allowed characters in filenames All 8-bit

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    Introduction Hadoop distributed file system is a highly scalable file system. It is specially designed for applications with large data sets. HDFS supports parallel reading and processing of data. It is significantly different from other distributed file systems. Typically HDFS is designed for streaming large files. HDFS is specially designed to run commodity hardware and deployed into low cost hardware. It has large throughput instead of low latency. HDFS typically uses read one write many pattern

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    The Ethics of File Sharing Software Essay

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    The Ethics of File Sharing Software Introduction The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ethical problem that file sharing software creates when used to transfer copy written material. It is contested that the very existence of this software promotes piracy. The paper will focus on the creators of the file sharing software, knowing that the user employs their product illegally. The software creators (Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, etc) are claiming that they cannot control what the

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    GlusterFS is scalable file system which is implemented in C language. Since it is an open source its features can be extended [8]. Architecture of GlusterFS is a powerful network written in user space which uses FUSE to connect itself with virtual file system layer [9]. Features in GlusterFS can be easily added or removed [8]. GlusterFS has following components: • GlusterFs server storage pool – it is created of storage nodes to make a single global namespace. Members can be dynamically added and

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    The purpose of this lab activity is to get one used to the basics of Windows file systems including RAID, Disk Spanning and Dynamic Disks. We also worked on Linux machine to explore the processes of file system by working through LVM (Logical Volume Management). We started by launching the Domain Controller server FluxWinDC01 instance and a new instance FluxWindowsFSLab with additional four Elastic Block Store (EBS) drive storage. After remotely connecting to the Domain Controller, we access the

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    In 2018 a mother of a 12-year-old girl in New York settled a lawsuit of $2000 because she was illegally sharing copyrighted music files according to www.pediatrics.about.com. Why would someone want to do that? As the person, you’re taking the money of someone else’s hard work. The artist that wrote the song took a lot of time and effort to make it. There are thousands of music artist and stealing their money is not fair for all they do. To stop this from occurring there must be harsher penalties

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    piracy or "file sharing" of proprietary material has gained abundant quality. it 's a subject that has endlessly sparked dialogue and has even received world attention. though on the surface the act of file sharing could appear harmless, it 's aloof from it. Each year, film and record production firms in addition as software system and game development firms suffer from billions of greenbacks in lost profits. This loss comes as an instantaneous results of web piracy. several agree that file sharing

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    DropBox Inc. is a hosting file service by DropBox Inc, its headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. They were started in 2007 by two students as a startup company which created success for them immediately. They offer file synchronization, personal cloud, cloud storage, and client software. Dropbox makes it easy and quick to create a folder on their personal laptop or desktops, which DropBox synchronizes so it shows to be the same folder with the exact same information. It makes it

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    Limewire: The Rise and Fall of File Sharing When I was in middle school, the biggest way to get music for free was a website named Limewire. Nothing was more exciting than to be able to hear a song on the radio then go home and download it to our desktops. Also cool, was the fact that if one of us didn’t have a song, our friend could simply “burn” it onto a c.d. for us. That was the only way we knew how to get music, aside from going out and buying the whole album. Apple’s iTunes was just starting

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