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BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers
prostoalex writes "CacheLogic attempted to measure the peer-to-peer network traffic by installing their network monitoring tools in data centers of large ISPs. The results are in, and Bram Cohen's BitTorrent overtook Kazaa's FastTrack network. BitTorrent traffic amounted to 53% of all peer-to-peer traffic, according to CacheLogic. It's worth noting, though, that Kazaa traffic is highly seasonal, as a lot of high-schoolers and college students are simply on vacation this time of year."
I file trading is peer-to-peer (decentralized) how can some central "authority" know what's going on?
...if someone could plot legit traffic against "illegal" traffic. My guess is that BitTorrent would account for a much higher percentage of legitimate file traffic as pretty much anyone who has a large file (e.g. Linux Distros) uses BitTorrent to distribute it.
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These results are a bit misleading, simply because how BitTorrent will d/l from multiple sources. The causes a lot of traffic for a smaller amount of files. It is still pretty sweet to see the 'Torrent take off, though, even if it isn't as big as this implies.
No surprises here, bit torrent is far supperior to Kazaa in almost every way.
The only thing that needs to be improved with bit torrent is a merger of all the small tracker sites into one big site where you can hook on to any torrent out there. Suprnova.org is getting there but still, more momentum needs to be developed.
That being said, the best thing about the bit torrent technology is that it's almost impossible for the RIAA to control it. The cat is out of the bag and theres no way it will be pushed back in.
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
...that BitTorrent was designed for using as much capacity as possible to get the file(s) to everybody simultaneously, whereas Kazaa has the "fetch from multiple sources" as a bonus feature.
Does Kazaa also upload sections of a file that hasn't totally downloaded yet? If not, then you can account for approximately half of the traffic right there.
Also, Torrents are announced, creating a traffic rush, whereas there isn't really a notification mechanism (last time I checked) for Kazaa that would cause a similar rush.
Does this also mean that there has been some kind of demographic shift too, along with the 'generational shift' from movies to music?
Also is this some kind of silent protest against gator style spyware embedded in Kazaa?
Or as RIAA tactics target one section of users using a particular P2P network (sic), they shift alleigances to another?
CNET article is nice but typically lacking on details...
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Eh, +Interesting?
:-P
*gets mental image of mod thinking "Oooh! Ahaaa! I see..."
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They're not the RIAA, but the MPAA does definately look at Bit Torerent. To be blunt, using BT for anything the MPAA has a copyright on while a college network is fairly dangerous. The MPAA seems to run robots which, as best I can tell, find BT servers and check the owner of the network. If it happens to be a school, they generate a nastygram and send it to the computer department, with not so pleasant consequences. This happened to me a few weeks ago, where I was getting a few episodes of Firefly (and uploading at a whooping kB/s, too!)
I've never seen direct connect mentioned on any of these studies or warnings. Even when my school, RIT, got warned and passed the warnings on to the students, they only complained about Kazaa and not direct connect, despite the fact that it is much larger on campus. Is there some big thing about Kazaa that I'm missing? No matter how rare the item is that I'm looking for, I'm sure to find several people that have it. I've never seen a reason to use anything else (yet).
Is it actually illegal to have a torrent on your system and not the infringing material? I downloaded several torrents from supranova.org and most of the time I never bother to download the content itself.
think p2p is here to stay, and there are still features that need to be put in place univerally before it's mature, and all the various p2p flavors are comparable.
The various bits are there scattered across different p2p networks. IMNSHO, all p2p networks/clients ought to have:
-Swarming (as defined/used in BitTorrent)
-Privacy/anonymity (perhaps as much as in Freenet)
-Good searching (Kazaa, Napster, those types. With room for improvement all around)
-Open-source clients with no ads/spyware
-Decentralized/self-organizing networks (no central point of failure, or at least minimal)
-Browser/web server hooks to autoswarm web content (there ought to be bittorrent:// links)
Pardon my BitTorrent bias. I moderate the bittorrent_help mailing list, so I have more exposure to that.
All these features should someday be pushed into numerous language libraries, so that they become ubiquitous.
I would love for someone to explain to me how this isn't a violation of the Wiretap Act. Unless all the customers have given consent in the T&Cs, there would be a good case (for investigating this further. The exemptions for protecting the "rights or property" of the network provider don't really apply here, as courts have typically required a substantial nexus between the monitoring and the rights or property (think IDS on the DMZ). This sort of research project doesn't seem to fill that requirement, either.
"You can never have too many elephants on your team."
Am I the only individual here on Slashdot that isn't using a P2P client on a regular basis????????
I've never been unable to get a demo I wanted from a legitimate source.
I don't download pirate videos or music.
I've d/l linux distros direct or at distro sites with no problem.
So, in a short answer, why is using a P2P client sooo much better? From the consumer side that is?
I've read the info at the Bittorrent site.
And just to ask my fellow Sd folks...how safe is it?
Thanks and be well!
Too late, my friend. Too late. I knew BT's cover was blown when a couple of young kids from my wife's CHURCH asked me (the guy off in the corner in the OpenBSD Blowfish T-shirt with the actual algorithm on the back standing by himself and chain-drinking coffee) if *I* had heard of BitTorrent.
... child-dotted? I *TOLD* them not to put the damn comic books up.
"It's kinda like Kazaa, but way cooler" the young pre-pimply punk in the orange hawaiian shirt said.
"Yeah, cooler", said his little brother, wearing an equally tacky spider-man shirt.
"Oh, F***!" I said.
There goes the neighbourhood.
And I need to stress, these weren't even REGULAR kids. These were CHURCH kids, the kind that's not allowed to listen to Hootie and the Blowfish because they're the Devil Music. The good thing that came out of it was that I convinced one of the kids to download Knoppix and give it a try.
I had no idea BT had blown up like that. I knew the Suprnova site went down all the time, but I didn't know they were getting
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
I'm a typical college student. I come from a middle class home, a middle class home with broadband. My school has filtered p2p file sharing. I did NOT run a single p2p program last semester (I swear). I'm back home with broadband now. Do the math.
While I am probably in the minority, keep your eye on this as more schools bend towards the will of the people giving them funding.