peer to peer usage on the decline?

a report on slyck.com states that p2p usage has been significantly affected since limewire was shut down but it is unclear wheather the affect will be prolonged or merely tempory.  here is the whole story. 
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54314
aaron meeks

P2P Dangerous?

Peer to peer networking is mostly positive. The majority of people using free social networks such as Facebook, Skype benefit from it as it helps people keep contact. For example, people from different continents can talk frequently talk to each other without paying a dime. Skype has become the best way of communicating with family and friends for international students. Social networking can also have negative repercussions such as stalkers, identity theft. Here is a small article about a man who recently plead guilty to "sharing images of child pornography" through a peer to peer computer network: http://www.newschannel10.com/story/14510638/tucumcari-man-pleaded-guilty-of-child-porn-charges

Mamadou

Peer to Peer Networking: The Money Maker

LOL! So I ran across this article explaining that peer to peer fundraising is NOT just for Healthcare organization and how this university (Elon) is currently using peer to peer networking to raise money for the university targeting the younger alumni. A video was send to a database of students that had graduated as far back as 11 years ago! Although the making this video was full of jokes and is a little cheesy.... IT WORKED! The percentage went up by 50% in less than four weeks. I really think that UNC-Charlotte should do something like this so that the money that we need would come from the alumni, instead of increasing our TUTION! lol Here is the video.... too funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmB-14st69w

~Alexis

Peer to Peer Lending

I thought this was a really interesting website that broke down peer to peer lending.  It says peer to peer lending is just as safe as getting money from a bank; there is just as much risk involved.  Essentially, P2P lending cuts out the bank.  The lending and receiving money takes place between an individual needing money and one or more lending companies willing to take a risk.
-Keri Brock

http://cashmoneylife.com/what-is-peer-to-peer-lending/

P2P Networks: Sony vs. Tenenbaum

There are many cases on Copyright infringement of music downloads. On 2010, Joel Tenenbaum was charged $675,000 by Sony Entertainment.  The judge thought it was unconstitutionally excessive, so she lowered to $67500 worth of damages. Mr. Tenenbaum thought the lowered amount was still excessive and that he would have to go into bankruptcy.  He filed an appeal to the Court and now the file is in the first circuit of Court of appeals. In my honest opinion, I feel that Tenenbaum is being charged way too much on a case like this. I understand that he committed copy right infringement through peer to peer, but there are tons of people just like him. And charging him $67500 will not deter illegal file-sharing. 

More on the story: http://www.ipbrief.net/2011/04/08/sony-v-tenenbaum-saga-file-sharing-case-makes-its-way-to-first-circuit/

-Mark Nguyen

About P2P: About P2P: P2P for Finance

apparently P2p for loans is becoming very popular, especially when the loans needed are relatively small and since the large banking institutions have tightened their credit standards for giving out loans. heres another news story
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-choose-the-best-peer-to-peer-lending-site-2011-3
-aaron meeks

About P2P: P2P for Finance

Check this out, i found this awesome website that talks about different ways P2P can be used in the realm of finance.
http://investengine.com/blog/choose-peer-to-peer-lending-site

P2P: Its much more than just file sharing

i just discovered a website listing some of the top ways that P2P can be used in areas like finance to start small businesses, aid in financing projects and many other off the cuff ways of using P2P.
http://investengine.com/blog/choose-peer-to-peer-lending-site

Home Peer to Peer Networks

I have to admit, whenever I hear "peer to peer", I automatically think of something like LimeWire or people illegally downloading music and movies.  Something I never realized is that a lot of home computers are on peer to peer networks.  Most of the time, computers are pretty close to each other if they're on a peer to peer network.  At my home, there are three laptops and one desktop computer.  My mom networked them all together so we can all print from the printers, use the fax machine if need be, I can even plug a USB into my laptop from the desktop computer and access all the files on that computer, and we are all connected to the internet on the same router.  Although,  there are arguments that a network is no longer a P2P network when a network router is installed, it is still a P2P network.  Installing a network router just means all the computers on the network can connect to the internet.
So lots of homes with multiple computers are P2P networks.  I thought that was pretty interesting.

-Keri Brock

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/p2ppeertopeer/a/p2pintroduction.htm

Streaming Media with Peer-to-Peer Networks: Wireless Perspectives

As we all know technology is becoming greater by the minute.... Important Info

Feburary 17th, 2011 a proposal was submitted to publish a book on Streaming Media with Peer-to-Peer Networks: Wireless Perspectives; a book edited by Dr. Martin Fleury and Dr. Nadia Qadri. The target audience would be wireless networks along with broadband access networks; researchers etc. One of the main issue stated the this security of this service.... at this point it is far from being safe. If everything goes well the final version is due on August 15th, 2011. Do you believe this will book sale and people would take advantage of this new technology? I believe it will; technology growth is huge right now and wireless networks are always looking for new inventions. 4G phones for example is a start for p2p networking and the communicate on internet mobile.

~Alexis

U.S. P2P Traffic

According to an online news article by Jeremy Kirk, the U.S. has the lowest online P2P traffic than anywhere in the rest of the world.  BitTorrent accounted for 17.9% of this traffic.  Out of 2.7 million torrent files, 2/3 of those files were actually covered under copyright protections.  Of all the files traded on BitTorrent, 35.8% of those files were pornography.

I think it's curious that the U.S. has the lowest online P2P traffic.  With as much time as America spends behind the computer, you would think that that P2P traffic would be much higher than other countries.  Any ideas as to why the U.S. traffic is lower than other countries?



-Keri Brock



http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9207599/U.S._P2P_traffic_lower_than_world_average

IBM Virtual Tape Server

IBM is working on a Virtual Tape Server that can be accessed through the P2P networks. Its cheap and efficient, and available anytime anyone needs it. If you dont know what they are, here are the websites.
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/its/a1000261\
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci498376,00.html


-Mark Nguyen

legal note

the IP blocker is by a company called Phoenix Labs.....this is something i found on their site.......thought is was kinda rich.

"Phoenix Labs and the PeerGuardian team do not condone copyright infringement. There are many legal uses of P2P and we are sick of being treated like criminals! We want to keep organizations and individuals from collecting data about us without our consent."

tools in the war

I just heard about something called peer guardian 2 which is a IP blocker for windows so you can use P2P sites and your IP address will not be given. very cool.

Welcome to the P2P blog.

Welcome professor, and classmates, to our blog about P2P networks.  As you know, we will blogging about relevant information to our topic for the couple months.  We will likely cover such things as Napster, Limewire, bitTorrent, Skype, and other underground P2P sites.  Some Legal issues and other interesting things.  Keep a look out for updates.

-Dustin Baker