Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
SEMIMAR REPORT
ON
BITTORENT
PROTOCOL
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Overview of BitTorrent
3 BitTorrent protocol 1.0
4 New features
5 References
1 Introduction
30% of all Internet bandwidth was used by BitTorrent at
the end of 2004.
popular ways of sharing and downloading files.
BitTorrent is used for legal distribution of files and to
illegally share and download of copyrighted material.
Due technology within the protocol large amounts of data
can be distributed without the need of a high capacity
server, and expensive bandwidth.
Bittorent is decentralized.
2 Overview of BitTorrent
Keys in the dictionary
length: The length of the file in bytes
· name: The name of the file
· piece length: The piece length in bytes
· pieces: A 20 byte SHA1 hash file.
md5sum: 32 byte string file.
announce-list: list of tracker URL.
creation date
Comment
created by
3.2 Tracker protocol
[backup1] ]
4.3 Encryption
Due to high BitTorrent traffic of 30%
bandwidth, some ISPs block BT traffic.
encryption of BitTorrent traffic was
implemented in some clients to fool
the ISPs blocking system.
encrypting and recognition of BitTorrent
traffic, takes up resources.
That’s why ISPs don’t implement this
kind of blocking.
It is known as traffic shaping or
bandwidth throttling.
5 References
http://www.cachelogic.com/research/2005_slide06
http://www.bittorrent.com/protocol.html
http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification
http://home.elp.rr.com/tur/multitracker-spec.txt
http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/174.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1083
The Pirate Bay Raid
2004: MPAA pressured the U.S. and Swedish
government to shut down The Pirate Bay
May 2006: Police in Sweden raided The Pirate
Bay, shut down their website, & confiscated
their servers
The Pirate Bay
BitTorrent search engine & tracker server
Launched in November 2003 by
Gottfrid Svartholm & Fredrik Neij
Down for 3 days
Publicity and +1.7 million more users
The Pirate Bay Trial
January 2008: Criminal & civil prosecution
in Sweden for promoting the copyright
infringement of others with torrents by
the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter
Sunde, and Carl Lundström
Found guilty
Sentenced to 1 year in prison
Pay a fine of $3.5 million
SUBMITTED BY
PRASHANT KUMAR
(0201IT071049)
IT V SEM
JABALPUR ENGINEERING COLLEGE
JABALPUR