Popular Culture Forms: P2P
Chris Rojek · The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2007
Peer to peer communication systems enable users to exchange files over the Internet. In the 1990s the spread of file‐exchange servers such as Napster, eDonkey, KaZaA, Morpheus, and Grokster because a cause célèbre in the recording industry. P2P exchange created a contraction in sales of sound recordings, especially singles.