The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Incentivizing the global wireless village
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Predicting the impact of measures against P2P networks: transient behavior and phase transition
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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The Internet growth has allowed unprecedent wide spread access to cultural creation including music and films, to knowledge, and to a wide range of consumers' information. At the same time, it has become a huge source of business opportunities. Along with great benefits that this access to the Internet provides, the open and free access to the Internet has encountered large opposition from both political, economical and ethical reasons. An ongoing battle over the control on Internet access has been escalating over all these fronts. In this paper we describe first some of the ideological roots of free access to the Internet along with its main opponents. We then focus on the problem of 'Internet piracy' and analyze the efficiency of efforts to reduce the availability of copyrighted creations that are available for non-authorized free download.