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Korea stops music file-sharing

13. June 2006, 11:56 Uhradmin

Korean file sharing services have banded together and agreed to block p2p downloading of music files.From last Friday a majority of p2p services said that they would intercept files, in a country where the value of CD sales has fallen by 70 per cent in five years.

‘We held an urgent meeting last week, and eight of 11 member companies agreed to block MP3 files until we find ways to charge users,’ said spokesman Jun Hyun-sung.

Koreans had paid around 50 won, less than 3p, to download an entire album, with none of the money passing to copyright holders.

The Korean Association of Phonogram Producers (KAPP), which represents the music industry, had threatened legal action unless the p2p companies took action by 12 June, today.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.