在BitTorrent上发布内容是无私的还是逐利的?

R. C. Rumín, M. Kryczka, Ángel Cuevas, S. Kaune, Carmen Guerrero, R. Rejaie
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BitTorrent是最流行的P2P内容交付应用程序,个人用户可以与成千上万的其他用户共享各种类型的内容。BitTorrent的日益普及主要是由于消费者可以免费获得有价值的内容。然而,除了必需的资源之外,发布(共享)有价值的(通常是受版权保护的)内容对发布材料的用户(或发布者)有严重的法律影响。这就提出了一个问题,即内容发布者(至少是主要的内容发布者)是否以利他主义的方式行事,或者是否有其他动机,如经济动机。在这项研究中,我们在两个主要的BitTorrent门户网站中确定了超过55K种子的内容发布者,并检查了他们的行为。我们证明了一小部分发行商负责67%的已发布内容和75%的下载量。我们的调查显示,这些主要出版商会对两种不同的情况做出反应。一方面,反盗版机构和恶意发布者分别为保护正版内容和传播恶意软件而发布大量虚假文件。另一方面,BitTorrent上的内容发布主要是由有经济动机的公司驱动的。因此,如果这些公司失去兴趣或无法发布内容,BitTorrent流量/门户可能会消失,或者至少他们的相关流量将显著减少。
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Is content publishing in BitTorrent altruistic or profit-driven?
BitTorrent is the most popular P2P content delivery application where individual users share various type of content with tens of thousands of other users. The growing popularity of BitTorrent is primarily due to the availability of valuable content without any cost for the consumers. However, apart from required resources, publishing (sharing) valuable (and often copyrighted) content has serious legal implications for users who publish the material (or publishers). This raises a question that whether (at least major) content publishers behave in an altruistic fashion or have other incentives such as financial. In this study, we identify the content publishers of more than 55K torrents in two major BitTorrent portals and examine their behavior. We demonstrate that a small fraction of publishers is responsible for 67% of the published content and 75% of the downloads. Our investigations reveal that these major publishers respond to two different profiles. On the one hand, antipiracy agencies and malicious publishers publish a large amount of fake files to protect copyrighted content and spread malware respectively. On the other hand, content publishing in BitTorrent is largely driven by companies with financial incentives. Therefore, if these companies lose their interest or are unable to publish content, BitTorrent traffic/portals may disappear or at least their associated traffic will be significantly reduced.
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