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P2P Not Dead, Just Hiding

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hunting-wabbits dept.

adavies42 writes "Contrary to media reports, P2P is not dying (PDF); it's just becoming harder to detect. In a paper for CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, researchers present evidence that the supposed decline in P2P traffic is actually due to a decline in easy-to-track protocols as those that change port numbers on a regular basis become more popular."

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  1. Geez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up already, let them think it's dying!

    1. Re:Geez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "People like you will be first against the wall when the revolution comes!"

    2. Re:Geez by bobbozzo · · Score: 2, Funny

      But... the revolution will not be televised!

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  2. This just in! by Mard · · Score: 5, Funny

    P2P "researchers" still unable to find suprnova.org...

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    1. Re:This just in! by Zardus · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or perhaps they like having access to huge amounts of movies and music from places like Suprnova and I2Hub and don't particularly want the RIAA, MPAA, and Satan shutting them down.

      Researchers are people too, you know! Sometimes some of them need to study .. human anatomy... Yeah, that's right.

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  3. In other news by RelliK · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS-DOS is not dead. It just smells funny.

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  4. Not unlike by Aexia · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bin Laden

    1. Re:Not unlike by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > Not unlike
      >Bin Laden

      That's no moon... that's a .torrent of Star Wars being hosted on Al-Jazeera.com!

      (Allah Ackbar, IT'S A TRAP!)

  5. Re:First.. by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    First... they laugh at it.
    > second, they fight it
    > Third, they accept it as truth.

    Fourth, they stop being able to track it by port number,
    Fifth, they say it's dying.
    Sixth, Netcraft confirms it! They have NO... sixth!
    In Soviet Russia, someone makes a joke about Seventh,
    Eighth, there is nothing for you to see here.
    Ninth, ...
    Tenth, Gandhi wins the (+5, Funny)?

  6. CAIDA? by Stormie · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not going to take this report seriously until Netcraft confirms it.

  7. It's not dead ... by aclarke · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... It's just pining for the fjords.

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  8. Re:Freenet by Mantorp · · Score: 3, Funny

    from what I hear not only is it impossible to find and decrypt, but also impossible to use.

  9. Re:I guess by csguy314 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know all my favorite buttorrent trackers are going under ground. This for example...

    Well we know what you're downloading now don't we...

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  10. Re:38 what-a-bytes? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Take away the porn, riaa poisoned music tracks, dodgy cam rips from the cinema, users documents or system folders, and your left with approximately 47kb of actual free publically accessible "legal" information ;)

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  11. Re:yes, i know i didn't get the quote right. by mikiN · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it was a literal Gandhi quote, it would be too easy to detect, wouldn't it? (Think Google, Slashdot search etc.)
    Of course they're misquoting Gandhi, it is like changing the port numbers for P2P protocols. Next they will think of a polymorphic engine to mess up the quote to evade the virus scanners err..Gandhi quote filters.

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  12. Re:What are these clients? by Hatta · · Score: 3, Funny

    They wouldn't be very well hidden if we told you.

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  13. Re:38 what-a-bytes? by burns210 · · Score: 4, Funny

    47kb of actual free publically accessible "legal" information... should be enough for anybody.

  14. Re:38 what-a-bytes? by Fjornir · · Score: 4, Funny
    Take away the porn,

    You can take away my porn when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

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  15. Re:38 what-a-bytes? by yppiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that's what you're holding, I'm not going anywhere near your fingers.

    --Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

  16. Re:How to infringe & NOT get caught. An 'exper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only way the content cartel can get the last word in is to simply make encryption illegal worldwide except for authorized parties.

    We're working on it.

    -- Your friends at the RIAA

  17. Someone by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 3, Funny
    Someone with more writing talent than myself should PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD make a BSD is Dying post for this.

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  18. and... by Cynikal · · Score: 2, Funny

    your dog wants accuracy