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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. eDonkey Fully Decentralized? by dinojemr · · Score: 1, Troll

    From Slide 10:
    eDonkey is fully decentralised, there are no "tracker" sites to shut down

    eDonkey is not fully decentralized. Users still have to connect to servers; larger servers will provide better results. Users are therefore encouraged to connect to these centralized servers. These large servers can be shut down, but most users would just switch to other servers.