Category Archives: BitTorrent

Summary of my thesis

by Jonas Posted on 26/10/2010

A brief summary of some of the main conclusions in Jonas Andersson’s Ph.D. thesis, recently approved by Goldsmiths, University of London. The thesis explores how file-sharers justify their habits, and what they refer to; how their arguments are constituted in terms of representation, agency, justification and morality, as well as the actual technical, economic, historical, demographic and geographical conditions. Continue reading →

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The absolute majority of all Internet traffic is p2p file-sharing

by Jonas Posted on 14/3/2008

…and most of the files shared are video files. The biggest p2p protocol, by sheer volumes of data exchanged, is BitTorrent. According to a special report by Internet analyst ipoque (2007), peer-to-peer (p2p) keeps producing more Internet traffic than all other applications combined. Continue reading →

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