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Can Poisoning Peer to Peer Networks Work?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

andrewchen writes "Can poisoning peer to peer networks really work? Business 2.0 picked up my research paper from Slashdot and wrote an article about it. In my paper, I argue that P2P networks may have an inherent "tipping point" that can be triggered without stopping 100% of the nodes on the network, using a model borrowed from biological systems. For those who think they have a technical solution to the problem, I outlined a few problems with the obvious solutions (moderation, etc.)."

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  1. So if I try to download the latest.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    tune, I may end up with somthing thats bland, repetitive and annoying.

    And, pray tell, how am I supposed to know the difference?

  2. Re:IP address block banning by Ubi_NL · · Score: 3, Funny

    what if the they take a few AOL accounts to do the poisoning: mind you that these have flexible IP adresses. Therefore you have to block all of AOL, which is A-OK by the RIAA I suppose...

    Or you could not live in the US and have no problem

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    If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
  3. Simple! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 5, Funny
    Everyone posting a real song should name it beggining with, "RIAA sucks, fair use is good, and Disney love$ politicin$". They would never want to spread such text, so every song name beggining with the text simply MUST be real.