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P2P Now and Then

Posted by Zonk on from the distributing-stuff-in-little-pieces dept.

brajesh writes "There was an earlier story on Slashdot regarding eDonkey overtaking BitTorrent in P2P traffic. The BBC story was based on this press release by CacheLogic. To expand on this, there is a comprehensive analysis of P2P trends in 2005 by the same firm. The report makes some insights into the present and future of P2P, particularly interesting in the light of recent steps taken by BBC -BBC iMP and others. The analysis also makes some observations about the break-up of P2P content."

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  1. To summarize: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting


    - There is a lot of P2P traffic.
    - This will not decrease.
    - P2P packages will come and go.
    - Industry had better embrace this.

  2. method? by adminispheroid · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The first question that leaps to mind, which none of the posted info answers, is how the heck do you compare gnutella to bittorrent? I mean, the gnutella network is used only for indexing, and the transfers are done by http, whereas bittorrent is for transfers (and there is no indexing). Did they take this into account? If so, how? Not clear to me how you'd figure out which http traffic was gnutella-related.

    I don't know squat about eDonkey and Fasttrack, so I don't know how these considerations apply to them.

  3. Re:a new conduit by Raindance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe. There's nothing inherently egalitarian about the internet.

    Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" touches on this. Code is law-- how the 'net is structured determines how it's used, with the nigh force of law.

    The internet is fairly favorable to the "little guy" right now, but Lessig says there's nothing inherently unchangeable about the internet's Code. The battle for the internet *has not been won*.

  4. Can somebody enlighten me? by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've tried to download files from edonkey for several months, without success.

    All i've got is "Queue #4339 of 4339" (in the worst case) and average of 140 people before me in my around 20 sources. And I mean anime fansubs, not pron (but it could apply).

    Considering that each file takes around 5 hours to transfer, my ETA would be equal to 29 days before my download actually starts.

    This makes me wonder if all the traffic in edonkey belongs to the 1/140 = 0.71% lucky guys who got to be the first ones in the queues.

    Gnutella, on the other hand, is my preferred source for downloads. I always get to download stuff.

    So... my question is... has any slashdotter in here been able to ACTUALLY download ANYTHING from edonkey? How long it takes before a download actually starts? Does the p2p client change your probability of success?

    Answers would be appreciated.

  5. Did anyone see the products they offer? by MemeRot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On http://www.cachelogic.com/products/cachepliance.ph p/ they sell several configurations of a P2P file caching server, saying it will save the ISP money in bandwidth. But wouldn't it also remove their protection as a common provider? I mean the ISP would actually be hosting the files going around on P2P, which would mostly be copyrighted works.

    It sounds fine to me personally, the ISP saves bandwidth and I get sent the file from a server hosted right at my ISP, but it seems like an insanely risky thing for an ISP to do. A general purpose caching machine would be fine -HTTP, FTP, Bittorrent, etc. indiscriminately stored, but picking just p2p traffic.... what do you think?