Question Workspace Copyrights in Digital Information When she was in college, Kiersten Walburg wrote a case study on Grokster, an online peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network, and knew that it was shut down because its services were illegal. Several years later, Montgomery Records, Inc., which owned the copyrights to a large number of music recordings, discovered that "tereastarr", a user name associated with Walburg's Internet protocol address, had made twenty-four songs available for distribution on another P2P network. Montgomery notified Walburg that she had been identified as engaging in the unauthorized trading of music. She replaced the hard drive on her computer with a new drive that did not contain the songs in dispute. Is Walburg liable for copyright infringement? 1. Making material available on a P2P network or through the cloud is called

file sharing can be defined as the act of distributing digital media to other parties. such digital media can be programs, multitimedia files like music and video, or even electronic books. file sharing could be prohibited in some cases but not always prohibited. files can be shared with peers except when it is stated otherwise. then it is good that you do not share the files to avoid infringement of copyright laws of the owner of the file.