P2P Now and Then

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."

Comments

To summarize:

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:a new conduit

[Neil Blender]

I may sound like an idiot for saying this, but does anyone ever get the impression that p2p is going to be the new conduit for the oppressed ( oppressed being everyone subject to coorprate america).

I'm sorry but not being able to get music and movies for free is not oppression.

Why P2P is not like the printing press

[Nom du Keyboard]

Printing presses are large, expensive, hard to hide, and easy to suppress. This is why they have such high Constitutional protections. Their problem is that whomever anc afford and control the press controls the news. For The People this is a double-edged sword.

OTOH, P2P is small, cheap, everywhere, and hard to suppress. While it cannot merit the need for such heavy handed protection yet, it disseminates information broadly and uncontrollably. For The People this is often a good thing!

Re:Can somebody enlighten me?

[suitepotato]

I run eMule on Windows and aMule on Linux (Fedora Core 3). I've downloaded over 100GB from that network so far of various things..

• Always make sure to share some of your files with people. Don't move them out of a shared folder the instant you finish getting them. Don't squelch all uploading to others. That's considered "leeching".
• Always make sure to check the file availibility. If the numbers are close to 1-5 you're not going to be getting it quick. If they are 0 showing online, you may wait forever.
• Always check for the same file being listed under another name with larger availibility. Many files will be out there in different incarnations and the correct version will usually be the one with the most people sharing it.
• Always make sure not to set everything to High priority, only those things which truly are and always make sure to swap all A4AF to an important file every so often. The clients tend to forget to recheck every so often for hosts popping online since the original download was entered.
• Always make sure on broadband connections to carefully control upstream usage as unfettered upstream usage is a good way to get choked by your provider. I keep mine to 25% of my upstream maximum.

eMule/aMule work fine for me. Way better than bittorrent ever has.