Association for Information Systems AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2004 Proceedings (AMCIS) December 2004 Inside Peer-to-Peer - Some Theory and an Empirical Analysis of a File Sharing Network Nick Gehrke University of Goettingen Lutz Seidenfaden University of Goettingen Follow this and additional works at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2004 Recommended Citation Gehrke, Nick and Seidenfaden, Lutz, "Inside Peer-to-Peer - Some Theory and an Empirical Analysis of a File Sharing Network" (2004). AMCIS 2004 Proceedings. 502. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2004/502 This material is brought to you by the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in AMCIS 2004 Proceedings by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please contact
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[email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File sharing Applications are responsible for a large amount of the (illegal) distribution of media content which systematically causes copyright infringements. In order to estimate a possible economical influence, it seems to be feasible to analyse the content of those systems. Firstly, the paper on hand describes theoretical P2P architectures in order to shed light on the possible configuration of file sharing networks. Secondly, we describe which technical means are necessary for an automated analysis of popular applications like Gnutella or Kazaa and how this analysis is conducted.