Who uses FTP and why?
Ok, I am brand new. I see all this hip hop going on about FTP. I understand people share file and stuff I just don't get how and why?
OK, I downloaded TRANSMIT, since it seems to be the favorite, I open it and he asks me SERVER? i don't know man,
Say my interest is in movies, music video, clips of all sorts or music. I use Lime wire or Acquisition, how can FTP help me?
If I understand well, I need to know where I am going in order to get something, unlike P2P. Right?
Would anyone shade some light and show me how it's done?
Thanks.
OK, I downloaded TRANSMIT, since it seems to be the favorite, I open it and he asks me SERVER? i don't know man,
Say my interest is in movies, music video, clips of all sorts or music. I use Lime wire or Acquisition, how can FTP help me?
If I understand well, I need to know where I am going in order to get something, unlike P2P. Right?
Would anyone shade some light and show me how it's done?
Thanks.
Comments
If you're asking for help regarding pirated movies, music, you won't get far here. AppleInsider is against piracy, and any attempt to post information that can be useful for finding such wares will result in an immediate lock of this thread at best, or a ban of any members that promotes piracy in any way, at worst.
Or something like that. There's a FAQ here.
The big difference between FTP is FTP works on a client-server model while P2P is a distributed model. P2P allows one to comb multiple host computers without having to log into each computer individually.
Hope this helped.
If you ever learn about making websites, you can always re-download it. It's worthless to you at the moment.
Most FTP servers that are free and open with software of interest are usually web-browser-accessible now anyway.
Everything you see on the web, pictures, html pages, Flash/Quicktime movies are usually uploaded to the website's server via FTP.
As a user (you) it is next to useless.
Were you to host pirated files on an FTP server, you might as well just walk down to the police station and tun yourself in (i.e. it'd be stupid)...unless you were some super-saavy hacker using an offshore server, which you aren't (nor am I).
some companies use ftp to distribute software updates (id software for example),
but other than that i guess you'd have to people who
know people (...) who have access to some elite 0day ftp server.
btw. igorveni, there's another thread about ftp clients here. but that's more about which client to choose...
Thanks again.