Thread: Britain's six largest ISPs and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing
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Old 28-07-2008, 15:39   #147
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Re: Britain's six largest ISPs and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
Usenet is based on propogation. A person uploads a file to a news-server, this file then gets propogated to all news-servers connected to that one news server and so on. A new client (program on a downloaders PC) gets a list of all the files available on a news group and then selects the files to download, so in essence only the original uploader is the file sharer and the news server hosts for some reason aren't held accountable

So for P2P anyone downloading a file is then file sharing that file along with the original sharer, where in usenet only the original uploader is counted as the file sharer.
got it now thanks for ya help
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