Measurements, analysis, and modeling of BitTorrent-like systems
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Clustering and sharing incentives in BitTorrent systems
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Uplink allocation beyond choke/unchoke: or how to divide and conquer best
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
BitTorrent or BitCrunch: Evidence of a Credit Squeeze in BitTorrent?
WETICE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises
On the leakage of personally identifiable information via online social networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Deep diving into BitTorrent locality
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
LEET'10 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats: botnets, spyware, worms, and more
Strange bedfellows: community identification in bittorrent
IPTPS'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Do incentives build robustness in bit torrent
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Unraveling the BitTorrent Ecosystem
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The bittorrent p2p file-sharing system: measurements and analysis
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
How prevalent is content bundling in BitTorrent
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
How prevalent is content bundling in BitTorrent
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review - Performance evaluation review
Broadcast yourself: understanding YouTube uploaders
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Measurement Based Analysis of One-Click File Hosting Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Bundling practice in BitTorrent: what, how, and why
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Content publishing and downloading practice in bittorrent
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
Vanity, cracks and malware: insights into the anti-copy protection ecosystem
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Paying for piracy? an analysis of one-click hosters' controversial reward schemes
RAID'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses
BSU: a biased seed unchoking algorithm for p2p systems
IDCS'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems
A fair cooperative content-sharing service
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TorrentGuard: Stopping scam and malware distribution in the BitTorrent ecosystem
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
User behaviors in private BitTorrent communities
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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BitTorrent is the most popular P2P content delivery application where individual users share various type of content with tens of thousands of other users. The growing popularity of BitTorrent is primarily due to the availability of valuable content without any cost for the consumers. However, apart from required resources, publishing (sharing) valuable (and often copyrighted) content has serious legal implications for users who publish the material (or publishers). This raises a question that whether (at least major) content publishers behave in an altruistic fashion or have other incentives such as financial. In this study, we identify the content publishers of more than 55K torrents in two major BitTorrent portals and examine their behavior. We demonstrate that a small fraction of publishers is responsible for 67% of the published content and 75% of the downloads. Our investigations reveal that these major publishers respond to two different profiles. On the one hand, antipiracy agencies and malicious publishers publish a large amount of fake files to protect copyrighted content and spread malware respectively. On the other hand, content publishing in BitTorrent is largely driven by companies with financial incentives. Therefore, if these companies lose their interest or are unable to publish content, BitTorrent traffic/portals may disappear or at least their associated traffic will be significantly reduced.