A private FTP server on the home PC enables secure data exchange among friends.

Why FTP?

You could share the files with friends in the p2p network, then they can download them too?
While that's theoretically correct, it actually works, but it's copyright law             protected content does not comply with the law.
Because apart from the friends, for whom a file is intended and to whom it can be made available legally regardless of any copyrights, any number of other people you do not even know personally can also access it in the p2p network and that is exactly that Problem.
A private ftp server on the home PC is a good solution.
Why this is so is explained in this workshop .....



To clarify again briefly:
The idea behind p2p ("peer to peer") is very good, and it is by no means fundamentally illegal, as opinion leaders, financed by the music and film industry, want us to believe in all media.
Only the type of use by the individual often leads to a violation of copyrights and thus to illegality.
Unfortunately, due to the structure of the p2p networks, it is almost impossible as a participant to protect yourself from such accusations: You can only see the true content of a file once it has been downloaded completely.
At this point in time, however, any number of snippets of the file in question had already been passed on to an unknown group of people - and in the event that the content was subsequently found to be protected, you were already guilty of a copyright infringement.
Mind you, in case of doubt without the chance of being able to recognize it beforehand. An incalculable risk. Because with the filename "free-and-open-linux.iso" the provider could just as well have named the latest movie. Furthermore, it is quite easy for the content industry to assert a copyright infringement in the dark if their own IP appears in a p2p network, regardless of whether or not protected material is actually exchanged. In this way, the problem, which would actually be one of the rights holders, is left on the accused, who now has to prove that it is not the case. That certainly costs a lot of time and nerves.
There is no protection against false accusations.
Many people use these p2p networks to exchange files with personal friends, often due to a lack of knowledge of more suitable alternatives for this special purpose. If you look at copyright, one thing is clear:
Things that are subject to copyright cannot be released in this way, i.e. using p2p, because you cannot influence who picks it up. However, giving away copies of copyrighted material to friends and relatives is not prohibited by law. Even the most hair-raising actions of the content industry with mobile prison cells to try out and similar windy horror scenarios do not change this fact. Apparently they try very hard to fool the population ...
By the way, it doesn't matter which way you give away the things at first.
This can be, for example, a recording on an audio cassette or a burned CD, but just as well in the form of mp3 or ogg files on a USB stick or via the Internet.
The giver only has to guarantee that the copied content that has been legitimately produced can really only reach personally familiar persons to a very limited extent. This is his responsibility, which is why p2p networks and messengers are forbidden for transmission directly. If you want to know exactly what is allowed in this context, you should visit the page iRights.info head for it and read it smartly there. You should be able to trust the statements of these experts.

The right way has always been to set up a private FTP server on the home PC, which can be password-protected and encrypted across the Internet from any other Internet PC without unauthorized access to the files. This is now surprisingly easy for laypeople to implement, even with a high level of security. And you always have full control over who received which file and when. This is how you can ensure that everything is compliant with the law. Upon request, the program can write a log file (server-log) in which everything is recorded in minute detail. Then you even have it in writing.

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