Steal This File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You About File Sharing

Steal This File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You About File Sharing was written by Wallace Wang. In brief this book, pretty much, teaches you how to illegally download files, such as, music, videos, or private documents and the pros and cons of doing so. The group who presented this book mentioned trying out the steps, in which, Wallace Wang noted in his book, to see if the book really offered legit information on downloading things for free. Well, I believe, they were surprised to find out that the steps in which they followed were good because by following them they were able to download this book for free. I thought that was hilarious.


The definition of file sharing is being able to publicly or privately download files. Napster is a good example of this. Napster was the first real file share that was found out and shut down. There were 26 million users in Febuary 2001, however, the original date of Napster was in the previous years of 1999. Shawn Fanning was the creator of this very popular file share which allowed people to download music for free. File sharing effects sales because the artists do not get their full royalties, however there are some definite "ups" to file sharing. People can check out music that they normally wouldn't which may even cause that particle consumer to purchase the CD or download the songs from iTunes to put on their iPods. Another form of file share that came out of wood work is known as Gnutella. Gnutella allowed people to share more than just music. This is just a little on the scary side because, so far, only you know the information that you store on your computer, so it's frightening to think that others across the world are going to know as well.