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P2P Network is good or bad? Sang-Hyun Park
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P2P Network is good or bad? - Definition of P2P - History of P2P - Economic Impact - Benefits of P2P - Legal and Copyright issues - Public Perception - Attacks on peer-to-peer networks - Risk - Ethics of file sharing
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Definition of P2P File sharing usually follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users.
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History of P2P 1st Generation Clients Napster was the original P2P application. Napster hosted a central server. Find a particular file. ("searched Napster“)
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History of P2P 2nd Generation Clients Gnutella was the second major P2P network. Gnutella worked by connecting users to other users directly Searching for a file. Advantage : It couldn't easily be shut down. Disadvantages: slow searches and islands of sub-networks.
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History of P2P 3rd Generation Clients Improve networks and improve file transfer speeds. Fasttrack (Kazaa, or Grokster or Morpheus ). Find a particular file. ("searched Napster“) Supernodes and Spawning.
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Economic Impact Negative impact on record sales Dropped from $38 billion in 1999 to $32 billion in 2003. Trend with the advent of Napster in June of 1999.
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Economic Impact No negative effect on CD sales Statistically indistinguishable from zero. T racking downloading on OpenNap servers. Illegal downloads: Small force in the decrease in album sales. Slightly improving album sales of the top albums in stores.
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Benefits of P2P Efficient use of resources. - Unused bandwidth and storage. - Unused bandwidth and storage. Scalability. - Consumers of resources also donate resources. - Consumers of resources also donate resources. - Aggregate resources grow naturally with utilization. - Aggregate resources grow naturally with utilization.
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Benefits of P2P Reliability. - Replicas. - Replicas. - Geographic distribution. - Geographic distribution. - No single point of failure. - No single point of failure. Ease of administration. - Nodes self organize. - Nodes self organize. - No need to deploy servers to satisfy demand (c.f. scalability). - No need to deploy servers to satisfy demand (c.f. scalability). - Built-in fault tolerance, replication, and load balancing. - Built-in fault tolerance, replication, and load balancing.
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Legal and copyright issues File sharing is a legal technology with legal uses, but… - Download and upload copyrighted materials without permission. - Download and upload copyrighted materials without permission. - Copyright infringement without authorization for improper purposes. - Copyright infringement without authorization for improper purposes. - Countries to cause significant difficulties in the protection of copyright. - Countries to cause significant difficulties in the protection of copyright.
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Public Perception According to a poll in Sweden - 75% young voters in Sweden support file sharing. - 75% young voters in Sweden support file sharing. ( I think it is OK to download files from the Net, even if it is illegal. ) ( I think it is OK to download files from the Net, even if it is illegal. ) - 38% said "adamantly agreed“. - 38% said "adamantly agreed“. - 39% said "partly agreed". - 39% said "partly agreed".
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Attacks on peer-to-peer networks Viruses to carried data. Malware in the peer-to-peer network software itself. Denial of service attacks. Spamming.
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Risk Malware. - spyware, viruses, or adware. - spyware, viruses, or adware. Degraded performance on affected systems. (Malware) - Web browsers. - Web browsers. - Anti-virus software. - Anti-virus software. - Anti-spyware. - Anti-spyware. - Software firewalls. - Software firewalls.
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Risk Distribute adult pornography to children. Child pornography to anyone. Degraded performance on affected systems. (Malware) - Web browsers. - Web browsers. - Anti-virus software. - Anti-virus software. - Anti-spyware. - Anti-spyware. - Software firewalls. - Software firewalls.
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Ethics of file sharing Fair Use - Downloading content for which you have no license is illegal. - Downloading content for which you have no license is illegal. - In practice, very little “fair use” occurs on P2P networks – vast majority of traffic is piracy-related. - In practice, very little “fair use” occurs on P2P networks – vast majority of traffic is piracy-related. Victimless Crime - Ease of committing the crime doesn’t make it OK. - Ease of committing the crime doesn’t make it OK. - Victims include : record companies and employees thereof (including artists) as well as network providers – bandwidth costs money. - Victims include : record companies and employees thereof (including artists) as well as network providers – bandwidth costs money.
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Conclusion
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