Measurements, analysis, and modeling of BitTorrent-like systems
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
The bittorrent p2p file-sharing system: measurements and analysis
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Privacy-preserving P2P data sharing with OneSwarm
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
One bad apple spoils the bunch: exploiting P2P applications to trace and profile Tor users
LEET'11 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats
Peer-assisted online games with social reciprocity
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Workshop on Quality of Service
On long-term social relationships in peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Workshop on Quality of Service
Economics of BitTorrent communities
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
A task-based model for the lifespan of peer-to-peer swarms
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
Understand traffic locality of peer-to-peer video file swarming
Computer Communications
EnhancedBit: Unleashing the potential of the unchoking policy in the BitTorrent protocol
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
User behaviors in private BitTorrent communities
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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A private BitTorrent site (also known as a "Bit-Torrent darknet") is a collection of torrents that can only be accessed by members of the darknet community. The private BitTorrent sites also have incentive policies which encourage users to continue to seed files after completing downloading. Although there are at least 800 independent BitTorrent darknets in the Internet, they have received little attention in the research community to date. We examine BitTorrent darknets from macroscopic, medium-scopic and microscopic perspectives. For the macroscopic analysis, we consider 800+ private sites to obtain a broad picture of the darknet landscape, and obtain a rough estimate of the total number of files, accounts, and simultaneous peers within the entire darknet landscape. Although the size of each private site is relatively small, we find the aggregate size of the darknet landscape to be surprisingly large. For the medium-scopic analysis, we investigate content overlap between four private sites and the public BitTorrent ecosystem. For the microscopic analysis, we explore in-depth one private site and examine its user behavior. We observe that the seed-to-leecher ratios and upload-to-download ratios are much higher than in the public ecosystem. The macroscopic, medium-scopic and microscopic analyses when combined provide a vivid picture of the darknet landscape, and provide insight into how the darknet landscape differs from the public BitTorrent ecosystem.