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Everything about File sharing
Distributing or providing access to digital media
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia, documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, Internet-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: File sharingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Blockchain Private File Storage-Sharing Method Based on IPFSInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Visual cryptography and secret image sharingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Consumer File Sharing of Motion PicturesCited 397 times
- Go sideways: Peer-to-peer file sharingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: KazaaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The process of making files available to others to download from the Internet.
Noun The use of a file sharing network, or peer-to-peer software.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Consumer File Sharing of Motion Pictures
File Sharing and Copyright
Optimal File Sharing in Distributed Networks
The Small World of File Sharing
File Sharing and the History of Computing: Or, Why File Sharing is Called “File Sharing”
Peer-to-peer file sharing communities
Energy efficient peer-to-peer file sharing
Voluntary collective licensing for music file sharing
🆕 Influential since 2022
Blockchain Private File Storage-Sharing Method Based on IPFS
Secure cloud file sharing scheme using blockchain and attribute-based encryption
GDPR-Aware Revocable P2P File-Sharing System Over Consortium Blockchain
An efficient blockchain-based framework for file sharing
Privacy-preserving file sharing on cloud storage with certificateless signcryption
📚 Books worth reading
Visual cryptography and secret image sharingStelvio Cimato · 2011
Sad Macs, bombs, and other disastersTed Landau · 1993
SharingPhilippe Aigrain · 2012- 📕Big DataFei Hu · 2016
- 📕InstagramTama Leaver, Tim Highfield · 2020
The Social PhotoNathan Jurgenson · 2019- 📕Working in the CloudJason Rich · 2017
Post it!Suzy Rabbat · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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