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