- There are lots of links and I can't find the time to do this daily. This is actually a good thing for the scope of my paper, but not in the completion of this project.
- They add up fast and the nature of information on the web will not slow down simply to accommodate my needs. I realized this long ago in my initial drafts, and indeed this was one factor that motivated me to pursue research in this area because it is "uncharted" territory. That being said, it's hard to pick up all the pieces and make sense of everything as a whole.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Where I've been
While I'm still actively collecting links, upkeep on this project has definitely not been my top priority lately. This is for a number of reasons, some personal and others logistical. I'll spare the personal remarks and comment on the technical problems this project faces instead:
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Filesharing Effectively Decriminalized in Germany?
http://torrentfreak.com/sharing-2999-songs-199-movies-becomes-safe-in-germany-080814/
Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany.
To give some perspective, 2999 songs would weigh in around 15-20GB, far more than what fits in a modern iPod.
Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany.
To give some perspective, 2999 songs would weigh in around 15-20GB, far more than what fits in a modern iPod.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Current anti-piracy initiatives
http://www.mpa-i.org/
From their site:
"In 2007, the MPA’s operations in the Asia-Pacific region investigated more than 36,200 cases of piracy and assisted law enforcement officials in conducting nearly 13,000 raids. These activities resulted in the seizure of more than 31 million illegal optical discs, 40 factory optical disc production lines and 6,400 optical disc burners, as well as the initiation of more than 10,000 legal actions."
From their site:
"In 2007, the MPA’s operations in the Asia-Pacific region investigated more than 36,200 cases of piracy and assisted law enforcement officials in conducting nearly 13,000 raids. These activities resulted in the seizure of more than 31 million illegal optical discs, 40 factory optical disc production lines and 6,400 optical disc burners, as well as the initiation of more than 10,000 legal actions."
MPAA admits to lying about college downloading
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/22/mpaa-admits-to-lying.html
The often cited MPAA "oopsie". Original article is from Slashdot, originally posted on January 22, 2008, AP article is mysteriously gone as of today.
Cory pretty much summed it up though:"In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus.The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher steps to prevent illegal file-sharing and to back legislation currently before the House of Representatives that would force them to do so.But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss."
Internet Mysteries: How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net? -- Update
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/how-much-file-s.html
It's interesting to note that a global media conglomerate such as Time Warner both supports media piracy through it's internet service and denies it. Read that again, through massive deregulation in the 1990s global media conglomerates now feed their own monster -- how much is still unknown.
From the article:
"Using data from an internet backbone link in San Jose, California, the researchers found that P2P traffic was steady, if not increasing. For instance, BitTorrent grew some 100 percent in popularity from 2003 to 2004, but the researchers found that it was getting harder to track P2P bits, since P2P traffic was increasingly using encryption and random ports, making it harder to quickly identify the application that a packet was coming from."
"UPDATE: Ipoque, a P2P traffic management firm, released its own study of internet traffic in 2007, focusing on Germany, Australia, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe.
According to their report, P2P traffic accounted for between 49% and 83 % of internet traffic in these regions. Using deep packet inspection techniques, the company says it could identify the types of files being traded, as well as unique hashes that pinpointed unique files.
For instance in the Middle East, the most popular BitTorrent Audio download was Beyonce's Listen, according to Ipoque. (Does that mean American foreign policy is winning or losing?)
The study is unlikely to please internet scientists, since the data set is not public nor is there much discussion of how the numbers were arrived at."
Comments:
"I did a lot of work in this area several years ago. The difficult thing is trying to differentiate traffic based on the port number is inherently flawed. While certain services are traditionally found on specific ports (web services on 80, ssh on 22, etc) there is *no* specific reason why any particular service *has* to run on that port. You can put web services on port 22, ssh on port 2222, ftp on 53621, and so forth. That has a strong tendency to skew data. You also have applications that have control connections on well know ports but spawn connections on ephemeral ports for data transfers - which tend to diffuse the data across a large number of unrelated ports. You also have a lot of bulk file transfers using HTTP which, although its in the spec, sort of blurs the line when it comes to file sharing.
There are some ways to 'fingerprint' the data transfers patterns on a macroscopic level that *may* let you determine rough proportions of different methods of bulk data distribution (p2p, point to point, web, etc) but thats about it.
Are people working with incomplete data? Yes. Is there better information out there? Sort of. Its not super easy to get and still requires a lot of guesswork and interpretation. Such is the nature of the beast (un?) fortunately."
It's interesting to note that a global media conglomerate such as Time Warner both supports media piracy through it's internet service and denies it. Read that again, through massive deregulation in the 1990s global media conglomerates now feed their own monster -- how much is still unknown.
From the article:
"Using data from an internet backbone link in San Jose, California, the researchers found that P2P traffic was steady, if not increasing. For instance, BitTorrent grew some 100 percent in popularity from 2003 to 2004, but the researchers found that it was getting harder to track P2P bits, since P2P traffic was increasingly using encryption and random ports, making it harder to quickly identify the application that a packet was coming from."
"UPDATE: Ipoque, a P2P traffic management firm, released its own study of internet traffic in 2007, focusing on Germany, Australia, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe.
According to their report, P2P traffic accounted for between 49% and 83 % of internet traffic in these regions. Using deep packet inspection techniques, the company says it could identify the types of files being traded, as well as unique hashes that pinpointed unique files.
For instance in the Middle East, the most popular BitTorrent Audio download was Beyonce's Listen, according to Ipoque. (Does that mean American foreign policy is winning or losing?)
The study is unlikely to please internet scientists, since the data set is not public nor is there much discussion of how the numbers were arrived at."
Comments:
"I did a lot of work in this area several years ago. The difficult thing is trying to differentiate traffic based on the port number is inherently flawed. While certain services are traditionally found on specific ports (web services on 80, ssh on 22, etc) there is *no* specific reason why any particular service *has* to run on that port. You can put web services on port 22, ssh on port 2222, ftp on 53621, and so forth. That has a strong tendency to skew data. You also have applications that have control connections on well know ports but spawn connections on ephemeral ports for data transfers - which tend to diffuse the data across a large number of unrelated ports. You also have a lot of bulk file transfers using HTTP which, although its in the spec, sort of blurs the line when it comes to file sharing.
There are some ways to 'fingerprint' the data transfers patterns on a macroscopic level that *may* let you determine rough proportions of different methods of bulk data distribution (p2p, point to point, web, etc) but thats about it.
Are people working with incomplete data? Yes. Is there better information out there? Sort of. Its not super easy to get and still requires a lot of guesswork and interpretation. Such is the nature of the beast (un?) fortunately."
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Some Explanation
In the Spring of 2008 I spent a semester at Clark University working on a directed study project that explored the inadequacy of current models of Cultural Globalization in relation to social digital media piracy.
The research I compiled – online resources especially – quickly exceeded the amount of time I could dedicate to processing each individual article, and as an incoming Library and Information Science student I became increasingly interested in the prominent role blogs were able to play in my ability to quickly acquire new information on this constantly evolving topic.
In another somewhat controversial stance on learning, I subscribe to the notion that it is the process of creating the note which forms memory and not necessarily the contents of the note itself. The mind is the original object-oriented language. In the same way a computer database relies primarily on a system of inquiry, I too should be able to learn and process more readily the research I have compiled based on meaningful meta-data.
Unlike the sources feeding my research, my goal is to find the overarching connections between instances rather than the instance itself. But first I must plant the seeds.
In short: This is an unguided and ongoing active experiment using free and public tools. I have a substantial list of bookmarks to catalog, articles to comprehend, and questions yet to be answered.
The research I compiled – online resources especially – quickly exceeded the amount of time I could dedicate to processing each individual article, and as an incoming Library and Information Science student I became increasingly interested in the prominent role blogs were able to play in my ability to quickly acquire new information on this constantly evolving topic.
In another somewhat controversial stance on learning, I subscribe to the notion that it is the process of creating the note which forms memory and not necessarily the contents of the note itself. The mind is the original object-oriented language. In the same way a computer database relies primarily on a system of inquiry, I too should be able to learn and process more readily the research I have compiled based on meaningful meta-data.
Unlike the sources feeding my research, my goal is to find the overarching connections between instances rather than the instance itself. But first I must plant the seeds.
In short: This is an unguided and ongoing active experiment using free and public tools. I have a substantial list of bookmarks to catalog, articles to comprehend, and questions yet to be answered.
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