Whois & Analysis for 4shared.com

Progressors in science fiction are people of an advanced space-faring civilization who facilitate progress of less advanced civilizations.

It comes from a perspective very much the opposite of what motivates Star Trek's famous Prime Directive.

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.

File sharing may be achieved in a number of ways.

Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking.

File transfer is the transmission of a computer file through a communication channel from one computer system to another.

Typically, file transfer is mediated by a communications protocol.

In the history of computing, a large number of file transfer protocols have been designed for different contexts.

In computer networks, to upload is to send data to a remote system such as a server or another client so that the remote system can store a copy.

In computer networks, to download is to receive data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems.

This contrasts with uploading, where data is sent to a remote server.