p2pnet - rss feed: BitTorrent at FTC p2p workshop
p2pnet.net News:- Wednesday sees the opening of the US Federal Trade Commission’s p2p workshop.
One of the invited speakers will be Johan Pouwelse, coordinator of the p2p team at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
He’s the technical coordinator of I-Share project to investigate resource sharing in p2p networks which includes a, “new and still unpublished measurement study shows the inner workings and performance of the Bittorrent P2P download protocol and the Suprnova.org content management website,” he says, posting on InfoAnarchy, and going on:
“Shown is for example the stability of 1,941 BitTorrent trackers in an 8 month period and the Flashcrowd effect during the massive downloading of “Lord of the Rings III”, and the performance of the moderation system on SuprNova.”
Bittorrent will be discussed and Pouwelse will both present findings and defend the position statement:
P2P file sharing technology is economically important because it enables significant cost reductions of both communication between humans (chat/voice/video) and information storage/lookup/distribution/modification.
In my vision the ‘black scenario’ for content owners will become reality as P2P file sharing matures. As long as users see no harm in copying copyrighted material, technology will provide means to do it. Without attitude/social changes, legal measures are irrelevant. This ecosystem where technology follows social demand is fundamental and can only be changed by restricting of human rights (no Internet cafe).
P2P file sharing is a disruptive technology which offers cost-efficiency and zero maintenance at the price of increased software complexity. P2P file sharing technology allows artists to come in direct contact with their fans. Without attitude/social changes, the big content owners will need to adjust to the new environment where content distribution is nearly cost-free and all new songs/games/TV shows/movies appear on the Internet within 24 hours after their release. For the next decade, content owners will not be able to stop P2P file sharing with technological measures. They cannot attract the Ph.D.s needed to keep up with the fast evolution cycle.
P2P file sharing technology is still economically attractive. File sharing technology has been used to yield significant cost reductions. The common P2P theme of pooling resources for efficiency, eliminating the need for intermediaries, and removing single points of failure is appealing for many industries. A good example is Skype, the Internet-based telephone which gathered millions of users in just a few months. Skype is based on P2P file sharing technology such as Superpeers and NAT circumvention/Firewall avoidance. This technology allows Skype to offer a cheap service which is easy to use (no NAT issues) and is very reliable. Another example is webcams, broadcasting in real-time to one million users is very costly. Within two years we will have the P2P-based technology which reduce the costs of operating both webcams and Internet-based TV channels to near-zero. Every user can become a content provider.
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See:-
p2p workshop - FTC p2p workshop action call, p2pnet.net, December 11, 2004
I-Share - New Bittorrent study presented at FTC P2P workshop, InfoAnarchy, December 13, 2004
