2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31989Peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies have been widely used for content sharing, popularly called "file-swapping" networks. This chapter gives a broad overview of content sharing P2P technologies. It starts with the fundamental concept of P2P computing followed by the analysis of network topologies used in peer-to-peer systems. Next, three milestone peer-to-peer technologies: Napster, Gnutella, and Fasttrack are explored in details, and they are finally concluded with the comparison table in the last section.35 pages, 26 figuresDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster ComputingC.2.4text