Just 100 users responsible for two-thirds of illegal file sharing2011-01-25 10:08 by DanielaTags: BitTorrent, The Pirate Bay
A tiny group of users is responsible for the great majority of BitTorrent activity, according to Spanish researchers. A team at Carlos III University of Madrid examined the behavior of users who published over 55,000 files on the two main portals of BitTorrent, Mininova and The Pirate Bay. They collected the names, ISPs and IP numbers of publishers, and the IP numbers of downloaders. They found that just 100-odd users were responsible for 66 percent of content published and 75 percent of downloads. "The success of BitTorrent is due to the fact that a few users make a large number of contents available in exchange for receiving economic benefits," says the team. Basically, they say, there are two different user profiles. In one group are the so-called 'fake publishers' - organizations fighting illegal downloading and malicious users who publish a large quantity of false files in order to protect copyrights and spread infected software, respectively. Read more -here-
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htos1 - 2011-01-25 17:53
I could have told you that in 2004
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