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File sharing (such as Gnutella and Napster) grew in popularity with the proliferation of high speed Internet connections and the (relatively) small file size and high-quality MP3 audio format. Although file sharing is a legal technology with legal uses, many users use it to download copyrighted materials without explicit permission. This has led to counterattacks against file sharing in general from some copyright owners. There has been great discussion over perceived and actual legal issues surrounding file sharing. In circumstances ...

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Napster, originally a centralized system, was the first major file-sharing tool and popularized file sharing for the masses. Napster was a localized index for MP3 files shared by the users logged into the system. It included IRC-like chat and instant messenger features. Many new major clients now follow its example in design. An MP3-only sharing system, Napster was finally shut down by legal attacks from the music industry. It was openly attacked by some artists (notably Dr. Dre, Metallica) and supported by others (Motley Crüe, Limp Bizkit, Courtney L ...

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The method used by BitTorrent to distribute files parallels to a large extent the one used by the eDonkey2000 network, but nodes in eDonkey's file sharing network usually share and download a much larger number of files, making the bandwidth available to each transfer much smaller. BitTorrent transfers are typically very fast, because all nodes in a group concentrate on transferring a single file or collection of files. While the original eDonkey2000 client provided little "leech resistance", most new clients have some sort of system to enco ...

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Because BitTorrent relies on the upstream bandwidth of its users — and the more users, the more aggregate bandwidth is available for sharing the files — it is considered good etiquette to leave one's BitTorrent client open after downloading has completed so that others may continue to gain from the file that has been distributed. It is not clear, however, how long one should leave their client open after downloading has finished. Many clients report the byte traffic upstream as well as down, so the user can see how much they have ...

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The BitTorrent protocol is still under development and therefore may still acquire new features and other enhancements such as improved efficiency. In May 2005, on the same day the tracker website elitetorrents.org was shut down, Bram Cohen released a new beta version of BitTorrent that eliminated the need for Web site hosting of centralized servers known as "trackers". It is now possible to have a torrent up in minutes, with a file, a website, and no understanding of how it works. In addition, Cohen launched a new service on BitTorrent's website, which ...

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Because of the open nature of the protocol, many clients have been developed that support numerous platforms and written using various programming languages. BitTorrent - Clients. This is a short list of the most popular BitTorrent clients. A more comprehensive list can be found at List of BitTorrent clients or Comparison of BitTorrent software. Azureus - One of the most popular clients, it is written in Java and features a plugin architecture. BitComet - Written in C++, which ...

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An earlier generation of peer-to-peer systems were called "metacomputing" or were classed as "middleware". These include: Legion, Globus, Condor, ByteTornado Peer-to-peer - Multi-network applications. aMule (EDonkey network) (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows and Solaris Operating Environment) (open source) eMule (Edonkey Network, Kad Network) (Microsoft Windows, Linux) (open source) GiFT (own OpenFT protocol, and with plugins - FastTrack, eDonkey and Gnutella) (ope ...

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Many peer-to-peer networks are under constant attack by people with a variety of motives. Examples include: poisoning attacks (e.g. providing files whose contents are different than the description) denial of service attacks (attacks that may make the network run very slowly or break completely) defection attacks (users or software that make use of the network without contributing resources to it) insertion of viruses to carried data (e.g. downloaded or carried files may be infected with viruses ...

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Some peer-to-peer file sharing programs, such as LimeWire or Bearshare, offer an option to look up local files or network search results at the Bitzi website for more (or more trustworthy) information. Often fake/misnamed files can be caught before downloading by doing a Bitzi lookup, as other users usually leave commented ratings. This ability also makes it invaluable for illegally downloading large programs, movies etc which usually have many fake/substandard copies floating around in P2P networks. For a list of app ...

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DHT research was originally motivated, in part, by peer-to-peer systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Freenet, which took advantage of resources distributed across the Internet to provide a single useful application. In particular, they took advantage of increased bandwidth and hard disk capacity to provide a file sharing service. These systems differed in how they found the data their peers contained. Napster had a central index server: each node, upon joining, would send a list of files it held locally to the server, which w ...

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To share a file using BitTorrent, a user creates a .torrent file, a small "pointer" file that contains: the filename, size, and the hash of each block in the file (which allows users to make sure they are downloading the real thing) the address of a "tracker" server (which is discussed below) and some other data (like client instructions). The torrent file is then distributed to users, often via email or placed on a website. The BitTorrent client is started as a "seed node", allowing ...

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Technically, a completely pure peer-to-peer application must implement only peering protocols that do not recognize the concepts of "server" and "client". Such pure peer applications and networks are rare. Most networks and applications described as peer-to-peer actually contain or rely on some non-peer elements, such as DNS. Also, real world applications often use multiple protocols and act as client, server, and peer simultaneously, or over time. Completely decentralized networks of peers have been in use for m ...

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Recently, developers at Pennsylvania State University, in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Knowledge Initiative, researchers at Simon Fraser University, and the Internet P2P Working Group, have been working on an academic application for the peer-to-peer network. This project referred to as LionShare is based on a second generation network, more specifically the Gnutella model. The main purpose of this network is to share academic material between users at many different academic institutions. The LionShare network ...

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Three major types of P2P network are: Pure P2P: Peers act as clients and server There is no central server managing the network There is no central router Hybrid P2P: Has a central server that keeps information on peers and responds to requests for that information. Peers are responsible for hosting the information (as the central server does not store files), for letting the central server know what files they want to share, and for downloading its shareable resources ...

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An important goal in peer-to-peer networks is that all clients provide resources, including bandwidth, storage space, and computing power. Thus, as nodes arrive and demand on the system increases, the total capacity of the system also increases. This is not true of a client-server architecture with a fixed set of servers, in which adding more clients could mean slower data transfer for all users. The distributed nature of peer-to-peer networks also increases robustness in case of failures by replicating data over multiple peers, and - ...

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Distributed hash table - DHT protocols and implementations. Bamboo Bunshin CAN (Content Addressable Network) Chord DKS system Leopard: Locality-aware DHT Kademlia Khashmir: Python implementation. SharkPy: Python implementation. Pastry Tapestry and new implementation called Chimera Distributed hash table - Applications employing DHTs. BitTorrent: File distribu ...

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