P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-10-19 - non-RIAA
They have left out the ‘news’ adjective inthe first paragraph. “Times have been slow in the file-sharing world.” should be “Times have been slow for news in the file-sharing world.” and “Ask any file-sharing veteran, and they???ll attest to the relative snails pace of P2P activity” should be “Ask any file-sharing veteran, and they???ll attest to the relative snails pace of new news for P2P activity”. The articles body has some valuable advice of stickig with open source P2P clients. One should use open source software in general, not just P2P, even if it takes the RIAA lawsuits against commercial closed-source P2P clients or extraodanairy software like OpenOffice.org to ween somebody away from MS Office.
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Bram probably got bought. It is turning corporate closed-source proprietary intellectual property. Stay away from further version of BitTorret. Use Azureus or uTorrent.
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I don’t mind the ratios but it should be global, not per-file. zzRatio in many Emule mods is global and in many it is conditional on leech-risk factors (powershare part files, session avg ul <10KB/sec, frindslots w/ max friendslot rate set over 3KB/sec, etc..) rather than always-on. There is no reason to 'patch' anything in open source software. The cheating clients are likely to be modded at the source-code level.
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Basically, Exetel is throttling the collective P2P (possibly only BitTorrent) traffic to 50% of it’s up-line bandwidth capacity, rather than strict 50% of the contract download capacity for the individual client during peak hours (12 noon to 12 midnight). So if P2P traffic hits 100% of their upline capacity, clients with active P2P traffic will be throttled so their collective usage drops to 50%. Since ISPs usually have downline capacities (sum of bandwidth allowances of their customers) of 5 to 15 times their upline capacities (their actual capacity), this can be substantial. They also appear to have static limits for each user, but it is very generous - 30GB per day! I have no idea if they will be throttling uploads or not. P2P is optimiallly syncrhonous with upload/download (leechers make legit users a moderately upload-heavy) and some people will leave their Emule or BitTorrent seeding when they have nothing to download for the current moment (even for a few days straight!).
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Here is a great individually itemized list of fake servers. There are many versions in the first mega-post. CTL-F Search for “Clean list for the main subject…” for the scrollable box with a list updated on 2006-10-07.
