File sharing is basically when you would receive a source of a copyrighted material in order to not pay for the actual cost of said material. This is a common example in many colleges where P2P file sharing would occur, this type of file sharing is when you would search for computer that would have P2P software installed and copy there information similar to lime wire back in the day before it got shutdown.
This has become a issue according to the article Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access? "The American entertainment industry says accounts for the loss of $20 billion a year in sales." The owners of said copyrighted material are losing massive amounts of money by society not buying there product from the original source. Even if lawyers were to go after the people who host these websites it would be to tedious and expensive because there are several people hosting the site like pirate bay causing multiple lawsuits against multiple people therefor causing a increase in the payment of lawyers.
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