Now what does p2p technology have to do with Desktop Publishing?
Apparently, nothing. Except maybe that Desktop Publishing implies delivering files, that those files are too big to be sent by email.
Typically, FTP has been used to upload and download files. p2p allows exchanging files that are located on your machine in an easier way in the sense that only the torrent file needs to be sent by email, no upload to the server is required (which also means no need to deliver passwords here and there), and that broken downloads or poor connections are not an issue.
p2p is probably the most innovative technology bred by the internet, and while it is often associated with illegal music and media download, it does not need to be so.
In fact it can be used as a convenient replacement to FTP, which is about as old as the internet itself.
So if you do not have an FTP server, and have no clue about how to FTP files, no worries. p2p is there. It is really easy. You create a torrent, send the file to someone by email (less than 100kb usually), they download the file and it open with their p2p client, saving it directly. You only need to leave your PC running overnight.
This is ideal also when you need to share those files with more people as your bandwidth consumption will be reduced as the file is served faster (each addressee is sending the file AS WELL).
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