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Content Publishing and Downloading Practice in BitTorrent

Content Publishing and Downloading Practice in BitTorrent

  • Seungbae Kim20,
  • Jinyoung Han21,
  • Taejoong Chung21,
  • Hyun-chul Kim22,
  • Ted “Taekyoung” Kwon21 &
  • …
  • Yanghee Choi21 
  • Conference paper
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Abstract

BitTorrent has been popular over the last decade. However, few studies have made serious efforts to understand who and why publish torrents, and what strategies are adopted by publishers. In this paper, we study the current content publishing practice in BitTorrent from a socio-economic point of view, by unraveling (1) how files are published by publishers, (2) what strategies are adopted by publishers, and (3) how effective those strategies are. To this end, we conduct comprehensive measurements on one of the largest BitTorrent Portal, The Pirate Bay (TPB). From the datasets of 52 K torrents and 16 M users, we classify the content publishers into three types: (i) fake publishers, (ii) profit-driven publishers, and (iii) altruistic publishers. We show that a significant amount of traffic (61%) of BitTorrent has been generated (i.e., unnecessarily wasted) to download fake torrents. Therefore, we suggest a method to filter out fake publishers on TPB by considering their distinct publishing patterns learned from our measurement study, and show the proposed method can reduce around 45% of the total download traffic. We also reveal that profit-driven publishers adopt different publishing strategies according to their revenue models (e.g., advertising private tracker sites to attract potential new members, or exposing image URLs to make people click the URL links).

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  • BitTorrent
  • Content Publishing
  • Measurement

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  1. KAIST Institute for Information Technology Convergence, Korea

    Seungbae Kim

  2. Seoul National University, Korea

    Jinyoung Han, Taejoong Chung, Ted “Taekyoung” Kwon & Yanghee Choi

  3. Sangmyung University, Korea

    Hyun-chul Kim

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  1. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

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  2. Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, 600 Mountain Avenue, 07974-0636, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

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  3. Instituto IMDEA Networks, Avenida del Mar Mediterraneo 22, 28918, Leganes (Madrid), Spain

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  4. Tsinghua-ChinaCache Joint Laboratory, Tsinghua University, FIT 3-429, Haidian District, 100016, Beijing, China

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Kim, S., Han, J., Chung, T., Kim, Hc., Kwon, T.“., Choi, Y. (2012). Content Publishing and Downloading Practice in BitTorrent. In: Bestak, R., Kencl, L., Li, L.E., Widmer, J., Yin, H. (eds) NETWORKING 2012. NETWORKING 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30054-7_8

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