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20-12-04, 03:09 PM | #1 | |||
Madame Comrade
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Top-class BitTorrent study published
An exceptionally good academic p2p study has just been published on The Register. The target of the study was the massive BitTorrent network operating around SuprNova, the leading torrent link site up to a few days ago when it was closed down, presumably due to the MPAA’s recent campaign against torrent and ed2k link sites. The various measurements and monitoring of the network were done about a year ago, around Christmas time. The timeframe included the p2p release of the Lord of the Rings III movie which gave the researchers an opportunity to monitor the network performance during the distribution of a highly popular file.
The scope of the study was wisely chosen, including not only the p2p traffic but the entire infrastructure involved in the release and distribution process: Quote:
All BitTorrent users know that torrents have a limited lifetime, but this lifetime turned out to be very hard to predict. The basic p2p availability principle applies also here: as long as there is a single complete source willing to share an item, the item remains globally available. But as the download speeds on BitTorrent depend heavily on the number of available sources the system performs much better on ‘hot’ items than on the ‘cold’ ones. Sudden rushes after much-wanted new releases are common on BitTorrent and have been coined with the term ‘flashcrowd effect’. Here are the concluding thoughts of the researchers: Quote:
BitTorrent was not designed for a hostile environment where copyright nazis hunt down downloaders and spyware companies try to snoop what people are interested in. As the designer Bram Cohen puts it, it is rather a tool for cheap legit mass distribution of digital products: Quote:
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