Wednesday, 17. October 2007

Topic: WEB - on October 17, 2007 at 2:39:00 PM CEST

P2P : Is Big Brother Watching You?

Abstract—In an effort to prosecute P2P users, RIAA and MPAA have reportedly started to create decoy users: they participate in P2P networks in order to identify illegal sharing of content. This has reportedly scared some users who are afraid of being caught. The question we attempt to answer is how prevalent is this phenomenon: how likely is it that a user will run into such a “fake user” and thus run the risk of a lawsuit? The first challenge is identifying these “fake users”.

techreports [pdf]

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