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Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm
AS Profile Peter 'brokep' Sunde and Gottfrid 'anakata' Svartholm are two of the operators running Swedish website The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. The site, initially established in 2003, claims it is a... [07 Oct 2008]
WebTorrent: A BitTorrent Extension for High Availability Servers
White Paper This paper proposes a WebTorrent system based on BitTorrent that will leverage the resources of the clients to help the server make the content more available. Achieving content high-availability is one of the most... [19 Sep 2008]
Replication in Bandwidth-Symmetric BitTorrent Networks
White Paper The popular and well-known BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol offers fast file distribution in a highly scalable way. This paper however focuses on the usage of the BitTorrent protocol in homogeneous local... [11 Jul 2008]
An Amortized Tit-for-Tat Protocol for Exchanging Bandwidth Instead of Content in P2P Networks
White Paper The principle of the incentive mechanisms in current content sharing P2P networks such as BitTorrent is to have peers exchange content of mutual interest. Incentives for resource sharing are crucial for the proper... [11 Jul 2008]
SODON: A High Availability Multi-Source Content Distribution Overlay
White Paper Multi-Source content distribution and file download systems such as BitTorrent and Edonkey emerge as a better scheme than traditional ftp systems in distributing files to a very large scale. However, a major drawback of... [10 Jul 2008]
Personal Firewalls - Testing Robustness
White Paper A third party bitTorrent application was also installed mimicking a home installation of a download application. Consumers require personal firewalls that are highly secure, easy to use, configurable and up-to-date with... [25 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up A further revelation from the BPI was that more people than ever are able to swap their music collections because BitTorrent clients are now so easy to use. The first travel-themed report of the week is news that Ofcom... [28 Mar 2008]
UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News He said: "The latest version of LimeWire includes a BitTorrent client in it and the user interface has got much more friendly. More people than ever are able to illegally swap their music collections because... [27 Mar 2008]
ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight
News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. The FCC in 2005 said... [25 Feb 2008]
On the Stationarity of TCP Bulk Data Transfers
White Paper BitTorrent is used to obtain a set of long bulk transfers and test this tool. While the Internet offers a single best-effort service, the paper remarks that core backbones are in general over provisioned, end users have... [27 Dec 2007]
TorrentSpy out of luck in email hacking suit
News A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy - a BitTorrent search engine - that accused the movie studios' trade group of intercepting the company's private emails, was tossed out of court last week. But while a US District... [29 Aug 2007]
P2P indexing site shutters access to US users
News TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent tracking site facing a copyright lawsuit from the motion picture industry, is shutting down access to users in the US, the company said in a statement. The barring of US residents by... [28 Aug 2007]
Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance
In recent years, BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular and scalable peer-to-peer file distribution mechanism. Early measurement studies verified that BitTorrent achieves excellent upload utilization,... [09 Jun 2007]
Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance
White Paper In recent years, BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular and scalable peer-to-peer file distribution mechanism. Early measurement studies verified that BitTorrent achieves excellent upload utilization,... [09 Jun 2007]
On the Role of Helpers in Peer-to-Peer File Download Systems: Design, Analysis and Simulation
White Paper While BitTorrent has been successfully used in peer-to-peer content distribution, its performance is limited by the fact that typical internet users have much lower upload bandwidths than download bandwidths. [25 May 2007]
