It's like any storage system but the files just happen to be distributed across other peer computers.
But instead of being stored on a central server, all your files are distributed across other peer computers.
They turned off almost all the lights to conserve power and huddled around a few working computer terminals, peering over computer printers with flashlights as they rushed to lay out the paper.
A peer to peer (P2P) computer network uses diverse connection between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants.
It uses file-sharing, the peer-to-peer computer innovation that spawned early music services like Napster, Kazaa and LimeWire.
Instead it is underpinned by a peer-to-peer computer network made up of its users' machines, akin to the networks that underpin BitTorrent, a file-sharing system, and Skype, an audio, video and chat service.
And, I would be standing at Verizon's side waving an American flag disdainfully at consumer advocates if the telecommunications company had also paid for the billions in government research that discovered the principles of peer-to-peer computer networking.
"Peer to peer offers to connect computers together the way people are connected," said Clay Shirkey, a partner for technology strategy at the Accelerator Group, an investment advisory firm in New York City.
At front of house, there was much conferring and anxious peering at computer screens.
In some compartments of the mole, engineers were peering at computer screens; the mole had lasers that registered the precise type of rock at the heading.
Until the last moment, the smugly reckless top executives don't even comprehend the firm's exposure; they need the fledglings, peering into computer models, to explain it to them (not an exaggeration of what happened at several firms).
