Inside Peer-to-Peer - Some Theory and an Empirical Analysis of a File Sharing Network
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چکیده
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File sharing Applications are responsible for a large amount of the (illegal) distribution of media content which systematically causes copyright infringements. In order to estimate a possible economical influence, it seems to be feasible to analyse the content of those systems. Firstly, the paper on hand describes theoretical P2P architectures in order to shed light on the possible configuration of file sharing networks. Secondly, we describe which technical means are necessary for an automated analysis of popular applications like Gnutella or Kazaa and how this analysis is conducted. Subsequently, we present first simple statistics to demonstrate what reports can be run on data collected from the aforementioned systems.
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