The music industry has repeatedly expressed concerns over potentially devastating impacts of online music sharing. Initial attempts to control online file sharing have been primarily through consumer education and legal action against the operators of networks that facilitated file sharing. Recent legal action against individual file sharers marked an unprecedented shift in the industry’s strat...

File sharing service is a fundamental module for many modern collaboration and communication services. The traditional server/client repository model of file sharing has been widely used in many systems, but when it comes to fully decentralized systems, a decentralized file sharing service is also greatly needed. In this paper, we have selected three different protocols, SSH File Transfer Proto...

A hint-based file locating & routing mechanism was proposed to improve the performance of peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The framework was based on the Freenet document routing model with file location hints to enhance the performance of file searching and downloading. Experiment shows that the proposed mechanism improves the system performance by saving disk space, as well as reduces file ...

Since the appearance of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing networks some time ago, many Internet users have chosen this technology to share and search programs, videos, music, documents, etc. The total number of P2P file-sharing users has been increasing and decreasing in the last decade depending on the creation or end of some well known P2P file-sharing systems. P2P file-sharing networks traffic...

The music industry has struggled during the past decade due to file sharing and movie business executives fear the same fate. This paper seeks to provide measurements of the effects of peer-to-peer file sharing on the movie industry. We use a long panel of data at the country level containing information on theatrical, video rental, and video retail movie commercial performances, as well as Int...

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon – this can be illustrated by the surge of file-sharing networks. In this paper we provide a critical overview of the liter...