Measurement Based Analysis of One-Click File Hosting Services

Sanjuàs-Cuxart, Josep; Barlet‐Ros, Pere; Solé-Pareta, Josep

doi:10.1007/s10922-011-9202-4

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“…A large portion of the traffic observed in the MAWI dataset originates from Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) file sharing services, commonly referred to as One-click Hosting (OCH) websites [3]. In [4], the authors study the characteristics of such traffic over a three month period, detailing the different throttling strategies used by different providers.…”

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On rate limitation mechanisms for TCP throughput: A longitudinal analysis

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TCP remains the dominant transport protocol for Internet traffic. It is usually considered to have its sending rate covered by a sliding window congestion control mechanism. However, in addition to this normal congestion control, a number of other mechanisms limit TCP throughput. This paper analyzes the extent to which network, host and application settings define flow throughput over time and across autonomous systems. Our study draws on data from a longitudinal study spanning five years of passive traces collected from a single transit link. Mechanisms for this include limiting by application, interference with the TCP window control mechanism and artificial limitations on maximum window sizes by the operating system. This paper uses a large data set to assess the impact of each mechanism. We conclude that more than half of all heavy-hitter inbound traffic remains throttled by constraints beyond network capacity. For this data set, TCP congestion control is no longer the dominant mechanism that moderates throughput.

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“…In other situations, such as one click hosting (e.g. rapidshare or mediafire [3,4]) high throughput rates are a premium service and the file server will ensure that typical users will get a lower throughput. In these cases, which we call application pacing, the content provider deliberately slows traffic to the users.…”

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“…They are typically implemented in a centralised fashion with thousands of servers located in computing centres [2,16,20]. According to previous studies, there are more than 300 OCHs [12].…”

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“…There is a wide body of peer-reviewed research in the area of OCHs [2,8,12,13,[15][16][17]20]. However, only Antoniades et al [2] specifically investigated whether the shared files were infringing copyright.…”

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“…It tends to underestimate legitimate use cases that do not involve publishing the download links, such as exchanging holiday pictures and other private files, or storing backups. Later works analysed the content types of files downloaded from OCHs as seen in network traces gathered at university networks [16,20] or in crawls of public indexing sites [15], but potential copyright infringement was not investigated.…”

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Holiday Pictures or Blockbuster Movies? Insights into Copyright Infringement in User Uploads to One-Click File Hosters

Lauinger

Onarlıoğlu

Chaabane

et al. 2013

Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses

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Abstract. According to copyright holders, One-Click Hosters (OCHs) such as Megaupload are frequently used to host and distribute copyright infringing content. This has spurred numerous initiatives by legislators, law enforcement and content producers. Due to a lack of representative data sets that properly capture private uses of OCHs (such as sharing holiday pictures among friends), to date, there are no reliable estimates of the proportion of legitimate and infringing files being uploaded to OCHs. This situation leaves the field to the partisan arguments brought forward by copyright owners and OCHs. In this paper, we provide empirical data about the uses and misuses of OCHs by analysing six large data sets containing file metadata that we extracted from a range of popular OCHs. We assess the status of these files with regard to copyright infringement and show that at least 26 % to 79 % of them are potentially infringing. Perhaps surprising after the shutdown by the FBI for alleged copyright infringement, we found Megaupload to have the second highest proportion of legitimate files in our study.

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Binary search routing equivalent (BSRE): a circular design for structured P2P networks

Naghizadeh

Shahbahrami

2015

Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech.

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Peer‐to‐peer (P2P) solutions are powerful distributed networks that are used in different kinds of applications. An important challenge for these networks is how search queries take place among users. A prominent solution for efficient search queries with a reasonable time is to use distributed hash tables in a structured design. Current methodologies of structured networks either provide a network with O(logN) routing time or exclusively reach O(1) without the possibility of routing. Based on different situations, each of these infrastructures has its applicability. In this paper, we propose binary search routing equivalent, a circular design for structured P2P networks. Our main goal is to make a flexible network infrastructure for routing. By considering trade‐offs between the size of distributed hash tables, overheads over churn and routing time, binary search routing equivalent can find objects without routing or route for at worst case O(logN). For this purpose, we emulate the methodology of binary search for P2P networks. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Measurement Based Analysis of One-Click File Hosting Services

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

On rate limitation mechanisms for TCP throughput: A longitudinal analysis

On rate limitation mechanisms for TCP throughput: A longitudinal analysis

Holiday Pictures or Blockbuster Movies? Insights into Copyright Infringement in User Uploads to One-Click File Hosters

Binary search routing equivalent (BSRE): a circular design for structured P2P networks

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