torrents – (bit torrent)

TORRENTS – (BIT TORRENT)

E – BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES PROFESSOR EDUARD HEINDL

BCM SS‘09

AGENDA: INTRODUCTION TO TORRENTS P2P SYSTEMS – ARCHITECTURE P2P SYSTEMS – ENVIRONMENT BIT TORRENT PROTOCOL BIT TORRENT INC. BIT TORRENT BUSINESS MODEL CONCLUSION

TORRENTS – (BIT TORRENT)

DEFINITION OF CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY: Torrent – Noun ( C )

A large stream of water that moves very fast.

DEFINITION OF URBAN DICTIONARY: Torrent - The most kickass way of sharing

files. Torrent files are pretty much the best file-

sharing method, hands down.

INTRODUCTION TO TORRENTS

TORRENTSTRADITIONAL FILE DOWNLOAD TORRENT FILE DOWNLOAD

THREE KINDS OF ARCHITECTURE: Purely centralized Architecture e.g. NAPSTER Purely decentralized Architecture e.g. EDONKEY Partially Centralized (or ) Partially decentralized

Architecture e.g. GNUTELLA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OF BIT

TORRENT: Partially Centralized

P2P SYSTEMS - ARCHITECTURE

ILLUSTRATION OF ARCHITECTURESCENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE PURELY DECENTRALIZED

ARCHITECTURE

P2P SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTPHYSICAL COMPONENTS NAT SYSTEM TYPES HUBS;

SWITCHES; BRIDGES ; ROUTERS AND FIREWALLS

NAT SYSTEMS:

These are of two types:

STATIC ONE – ONE

DYNAMIC ONE - MANY

Bit Torrent Protocol – Developed in 2001 by Bram Cohen.

It is now maintained by Bit Torrent INC. Thrives on the P2P Environment with a

partially centralized Architecture. Very Popular Tool for downloading Movies ,

Music and Games. TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH BIT TORRENT:

◦ Swarm, Seed, Peer, Tracker, .torrent file, Vuze, Bit torrent client, Pirate Bay, ISO Hunt

BIT TORRENT PROTOCOL

BIT TORRENT PROTOCOL

BIT TORRENT PROTOCOL

BIT TORRENT PROTOCOL

Founded in 2004 by Bram Cohen & Ashwin Navin.

In a Wired Article in 2007 – one of top 10 startups worth watching.

Reuters – Bit torrent Accounts for 35% of all internet traffic - Nov’04.

Boasts of an Installed base of over 160 million clients worldwide. – Press releases

Company employs 20 people. Partners include 20‘th century Fox, Lionsgate,

MTV, Spike TV , Warner Brothers & others.

BIT TORRENT INC.

Bit Torrent DNA ( Delivery Network Accelerator ) Enables Delivery of media content and games over existing Bit torrent protocol.

Bit Torrent Device Partner Bit Torrent Software Development Kit for

devices. Bit Torrent Certified Program. Bit Torrent Entertainment Network. Venture Capital Market.

BIT TORRENT BUSINESS MODEL

Bit Torrent Entertainment Network Offers downloads of films and other content. Partners include MGM, Paramount, Fox ,

Warner Brothers, Azureus and BBC. Different Download options – Daily rentals to

Permanenet Downloads ( US $ 2.99 – 3.99 for 24 hr rental).

VENTURE CAPITAL MARKET Funding on Bit Torrent US $40.8 millions by

DCM, ACCEL and DAG ventures.

Bit Torrent Business Model

NEW PLANS FOR BUSINESS: Club Model Compulsory Click Through Advertisement.LEGAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES: Bit Torrent Tracker – Legal? Finreactor Case 2004 – Fine of US§5.4 Million

ClaimedBIT TORRENT‘s DEFENSE: Bit Torrent does not offer search facility. Bit torrent does not conceal the host sharing

illegal files.

BIT TORRENT BUSINESS MODEL

P2P has many advantages to offer in the future. Torrents – Cloud computing prototypes. Sharing of Computational Power and Storage in

the future. Updation of data by google at present is an

issue. P2P could outline a complex solution to this in

the future. Maximum usage of computational power in the

future.

CONCLUSION

http://www.bittorrent.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent,_Inc. http://images.google.com/imghp http://dessent.net/btfaq/#where From P2P to Web Services and Grids : Peers

in a Client/Server World by Ian J Taylor BITTORRENT ISBN 978-1-8462-8074-0

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