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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jarmo Lundgren wrote:

> The caption:
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> "An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows a 
> significant amount of free riding in the system. By sampling messages 
> on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, we established that 
> almost 70% of Gnutella users share no files, and nearly 50% of all 
> responses are returned by the top 1% of sharing hosts. Furthermore, 
> we found out that free riding is distributed evenly between domains, 
> so that no one group contributes significantly more than others, and 
> that peers that volunteer to share files are not necessarily those 
> who have desirable ones. We argue that free riding leads to 
> degradation of the system performance and adds vulnerability to the 
> system. If this trend continues copyright issues might become moot 
> compared to the possible collapse of such systems."

well, i'm not so dumb that i would want to share my harddrives - who knows
how many exploits are possible via that. i don't even trust nfs or
samba. files are shared over webserver or scp. the secure way. 


sakke
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