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file sharing
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file sharing
Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing.
file sharing [′fīl ‚sher·iŋ]
(computer science)
The common use, by two or more users, of data and program files, usually located in a file server.
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Since then, the Recording Industry Association of America has been suing individual downloaders rather than companies, but the entertainment industry is still itching to shut down file trading networks at the source.
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VSDA President Bo Andersen said Tuesday that video retailers are threatened with significant losses from illegal file trading and from the bootleg copies of DVDs that are being sold on the street.
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Last month, the industry kept its word by issuing subpoenas against Loyola University Chicago and several other universities to obtain the names of students it believes are engaged in file trading.
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