From: Justin Voskuhl (jvoskuhl_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 18:07:47 PST
It's amazing from this paper just how much people (both end users and
administrators) are willing to put up with from these systems. The amount
of bandwith that Napster and Kazaa are consuming on the university network
is really alarming to me. After reading some of the papers on distributed
hash tables it seems that a much better design for Kazaa is possible, and
this is confirmed by the results from the "ideal" cache that was proposed -
86% of the requested content that travels outside the UW network was already
available inside the network. One question that I didn't see answered was a
better breakdown of the content that was being downloaded. How much was
illegal? How much was video/audio/images/software? I wouldn't be surprised
if more and more of it turned to video as the popularity of video ripping in
PCs continues to grow.
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