Examining Bittorrent

ToyKeeper and other wrote in with this: "The Register published a detailed analysis of BitTorrent traffic and user habits today, focusing on four aspects: availability, integrity, download speeds, and ability to withstand flash crowds. BitTorrent carries 53% of all P2P traffic (or ~35% of all 'net traffic), and this paper helps explain why. Also included are data about torrent lifetime, network poisoning, response during downtime or attacks, and lots of pretty charts. A few performance problems are revealed, which will hopefully be addressed in future p2p systems." The original paper (pdf) is available.

What about investigations on violent criminals?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are those being phased out as unimportant?

They missing the most important quality

[Nom du Keyboard]

...ability to withstand flash crowds

How about the ability to withstand lawsuits? Isn't that more important than flash crowds?

I'd like another name

[Jugalator]

A few performance problems are revealed

Yeah, performance problems should be fixed, but fix the name too. Name the next generation P2P client something like FuckTheRIAADickheadCunts. It would be interesting to see it get mentioned in the news each time RIAA sues something related to that P2P network. Call the "servers" instead "ejaculators" or something worse, and go on like that to introduce terms that violate various taboos. Soon enough, it can't get mentioned in the news anymore and (...now I get to my point, and now you will understand I'm not crazy, now you will see how this idea will triumph and free information once and for all...) RIAA's plans to scare customers by getting sue news in the newspapers won't work anymore!

HA HA HA!

Are you listening RIAA!?

We have you now!!!

THE NERDS HAVE YOU!

Re:35%

[WizardRahl]

"Or at least, your chances of being caught and sued are pathetic small." I guess sacrificies have to be made. You going to volunteer?

Re:35%

[Jugalator]

I have the complete statistics:

35% = BitTorrent
40% = Spam
15% = Slashdottings
10% = Porn Browsing

irony

[bitspotter]

The irony is that a web site dedicated toward serving a p2p protocol expressly designed to rememdy the slashdot effect gets slashdotted.

So why don't they just use Bittorrent to distribute their mirrors?

I don't infringe copyrights

[Anonymous Coward]

As a solid, upstanding citizen of the United States (a country which has the best government that money can buy), I firmly believe in strongly adhering to all the laws of this fine country.

That's why I always go to thepiratesbay.org.

They are located in Finland, of course, where US Copyright Law doesn't apply. So it's legal for them to offer files for downloading.

And, of course, in the US it's legal to download files. What is illegal is to offer more than $1000 worth of them for uploading.

So, please, let us all keep our Bittorrent downloads legal, folks. Thank you. ;)

No, no no.

[drxray]

You're on the right lines, but we should call it something really positive, something they couldn't possibly want to ban. They're pretty hard hearted, they're already happy being know as people who want to ban sharing. But lets see them try to ban JesusKittenShare (the premier opensource implementation of the RespectYourElders protocol) and www.cutebabies.org, the popular .behappy listing site.

had to be said ...

[for_usenet]

Anyone have a .torrent of the article ?

The other 65%...

[aztektum]

pr0n ...ok 64% *maybe*

Re:35%

[Doctor Crumb]

what about porn that is downloaded using bittorrent?

Yep

[Wesley Felter]

For instance, once the object that is being distributed been downloaded by the masses - you won't get a decent speed downloading it.

You're right; HTTP is so much better, because when something is being downloaded by the masses from a single Web server you get about 0 bytes/s.

Frell! They are already tracking!

[akaisaru]

It would really suck if BT were banned - that would prevent everyone from making any downloads. Think of how much free bandwidth there would be - over 1/3rd of all internet activity vanishing because of a BT ban! Wow!

A month ago, a few days after I innocently downloaded a file, I received a letter from my ISP telling me to delete the file because they received a compliant on a copyright violation. It stated that future complaints of infringement would result in my (or rather my landlord's) information being handed over to the complaining party for legal action.

I offer my sincerest scowl and finger salute to the frelling promiscuous complaining party.

If you can't beat 'em, use their names.

[mikey573]

Make a music sharing program called RIAA, and a video sharing program MPAA.

Then follow-up and make an overall sharing program called CopyRight.

90% of all statistics are worthless.

[Darth Muffin]

Okay, so 35% of net traffic is Bittorrent. 53% of P2P traffic is Bittorrent, that means 66% of all net traffic is P2P, right? Last I heard, 66% of all net traffic was spam. Therefore, 132% of all net traffic is P2P and spam and nobody is using the net for anything else (which means you're not really reading this).