Is content publishing in BitTorrent altruistic or profit-driven?
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Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for fun and profit
WOOT'10 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Offensive technologies
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One bad apple spoils the bunch: exploiting P2P applications to trace and profile Tor users
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On blind mice and the elephant: understanding the network impact of a large distributed system
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Foundation of a new digital ecosystem for u-content: needs, definition, and design
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Characterizing the file hosting ecosystem: A view from the edge
Performance Evaluation
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A detailed examination of the overlay construction and maintenance mechanism in BitTorrent
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Understanding BitTorrent: A reality check from the ISP's perspective
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A longitudinal characterization of local and global bittorrent workload dynamics
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Content publishing and downloading practice in bittorrent
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
Who profits from peer-to-peer file-sharing?: traffic optimization potential in BitTorrent swarms
Proceedings of the 24th International Teletraffic Congress
Measurement and analysis of child pornography trafficking on P2P networks
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Unveiling the incentives for content publishing in popular BitTorrent portals
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
Delay-based congestion control: Flow vs. BitTorrent swarm perspectives
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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BitTorrent is the most successful open Internet application for content distribution. Despite its importance, both in terms of its footprint in the Internet and the influence it has on emerging P2P applications, the BitTorrent Ecosystem is only partially understood. We seek to provide a nearly complete picture of the entire public BitTorrent Ecosystem. To this end, we crawl five of the most popular torrent-discovery sites over a ine-month period, identifying all of 4.6 million and 38,996 trackers that the sites reference. We also develop a high-performance tracker crawler, and over a narrow window of 12 hours, crawl essentially all of the public Ecosystem's trackers, obtaining peer lists for all referenced torrents. Complementing the torrent-discovery site and tracker crawling, we further crawl Azureus and Mainline DHTs for a random sample of torrents. Our resulting measurement data are more than an order of magnitude larger (in terms of number of torrents, trackers, or peers) than any earlier study. Using this extensive data set, we study in-depth the Ecosystem's torrent-discovery, tracker, peer, user behavior, and content landscapes. For peer statistics, the analysis is based on one typical snapshot obtained over 12 hours. We further analyze the fragility of the Ecosystem upon the removal of its most important tracker service.