whats happening in the peersphere
Download MP3 audio of interview here.
A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Michael Stapelberg, head developer of the DustFS project. You can listen to a recording of this interview here. DustFS is an encrypted, distributed file system based on the BitTorrent protocol. DustFS’s major features are full encryption, authentication using certificates and usage of BitTorrent [...]
I gave a talk at Google/bayPIGgies last week. I was very pleasantly surprised by the turnout - and most of all by the excellent questions asked by the audience. The interest from people at the talk crossed many domains - people were generally curious about many aspects, from security to technical scalability concerns [...]
Just a quick note, I will be speaking on the subject of our research at the Google amphitheatre this evening. Details on the talk, along with directions etc, can be found at the BayPiggies site.
I will post my slides online and I believe there will be a good-quality recording of the talk made [...]
We have conducted a survey of 300,000 individual torrents available on four of the best-known BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. Part of our analysis has been to see what category they belong to. Is porn more popular than software? Is music more numerous than TV?
Movies
Software
Music
TV
Games
Porn
Books
Pictures
Other
26.26%
20.00%
18.54%
11.06%
7.23%
4.61%
3.83%
1.18%
7.29%
Why so little porn?
While it is true that [...]
Recently I purchased series one through five of the hit TV show MacGyver from amazon.com on DVD for roughly $14 a pop including shipping. The inspiration for this whimsy came from a $4 trip to my local rental place which resulted in a straight through viewing of disc 1 of season 1. Prior to [...]
Introduction
Distribution of media in peer to peer networks tends to mirror the mainstream media. A new cinematic release will suddenly become the hottest thing to download on BitTorrent. But who releases the films, and how? Usually there are many different individual releases for a given film, and the cycle typically starts with initial low-quality offerings, [...]