Free-riders and fake files are two important problems in P2P file sharing systems. Previous works have always used incentive mechanisms and trust mechanisms to address them resp...
Anonymity is considered as a valuable property as far as everyday transactions in the Internet are concerned. Users care about their privacy and they seek for new ways to keep sec...
Elias Athanasopoulos, Mema Roussopoulos, Kostas G....
A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period before consumers had attr...
Of the many P2P file-sharing prototypes in existence, BitTorrent is one of the few that has managed to attract millions of users. BitTorrent relies on other (global) components f...
Johan A. Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epem...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) substrates are now widely used for both file-sharing and botnet command-andcontrol. Despite the commonality of their substrates, we show that the different g...