The RIAA: Managing Jell-O

J. Lyman, The RIAA: Managing Jell-O, P2PNet/TechNewsWorld, October 2005

Here's a great story about the file sharing environment post Grokster - it seems file sharing is growing despite the efforts of the RIAA to shut it down.

"the RIAA court win has had 'zero-effect' on the growth of P2P users, which grew from 3.8 million average users per month when the RIAA suits began in 2003, to 9.5 million in August 2005.

History of p2p

CNet have put together a history of the four generations of file sharing networks - well worth the look !

File Swap Fall Out, CNet News, 2005

CachLogic Report

Freedom to Tinker highlights the new CacheLogic's report on peer to peer networks which includes global statistics on the popularity of networks.

E. W. Felten, P2P Still Growing; Traffic Shifts to eDonkey, Freedom to Tinker, 16 September 2005

P2P statistics

P2P net has some new statistics for usage over the past few years - 9 million average users at one time !

p2p download statistics, P2P Net, 10 October 2005

Welcome !

... to the new page for this site - it is still under construction as you can see...

This weblog is literally a log of the web in so much as I plan to link to other news reported on the net with a view to consolidating secondary source material in relation to topics. To start with I will be focussing on peer to peer as thats my current area of research. I hope you enjoy it !

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