TORRENTS – (BIT TORRENT)
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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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