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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. Also I2P by Famatra · · Score: 5, Informative

    A good, and working, anonymous P2P alternative to Freent is I2P. The creator of I2P has been around for a while and cross talks with Freenet developers on occasion as both the Freenet and I2P community channels are on the anonymous irc network IIP, and irc.freenode.net.

    A lot of I2P is put into the public domain, with parts of it being GPL. Try www.i2p.net for more information.