Secrets Behind File Sharing Book
by Staff Reports
New title offers comprehensive look inside online file swapping networks.
A new book by author Wallace Wang is dedicated to the controversial world of online file sharing. Steal This File Sharing Book: What They Won’t Tell You About File Sharing ($19.95, ISBN 1-59327-050-X) goes beyond the misconceptions and melodrama to examine how popular services such as Kazaa, Morpheus and UseNet work, and uncovers the dangers that can befall fans of file-swapping, such as viruses, spyware and even lawsuits.
The book looks at both well-known and obscure methods of file sharing, and demonstrates that they’re about much more than downloading pirated music. Wang’s previous work, Steal This Computer Book: What They Won’t Tell You About The Internet, now in its third edition, received enthusiastic reviews for its non-technical look at the world of hackers and is one of No Starch Press’s most successful titles to date.
File sharing networks have grown in sophistication since the early free-for-all days of Napster. In addition to covering how people use file sharing networks to swap everything from music and video files to books and pornography, Steal This File Sharing Book reveals how people use them to share secrets and censored information banned by their governments.
It also investigates the ongoing battle between the software, video and music pirates and the industries that are trying to stop them.
Among the book’s other highlights are chapters on Methods of using IRC and newsgroups to share files; “Miscellaneous thievery,” such as illicit trading of embroidery patterns; How corporations are fighting back with lawsuits, “educational campaigns,” and bogus files designed to poison a file sharing network.
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