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Characterizing the file hosting service ecosystem

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Aniket Mahanti,

Niklas Carlsson,

Carey WilliamsonAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT '10 Student Workshop: Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/1921206.1921210

Published: 30 November 2010 Publication History

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File Hosting Services (FHS) such as Rapidshare and Mega-upload have recently become popular. The decline of P2P file sharing has prompted various services including FHS to replace it. We propose a comprehensive multi-level characterization of the FHS ecosystem. We devise a measurement framework to collect datasets from multiple vantage points. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to characterize the FHS ecosystem. The work will highlight the content, usage, performance, infrastructure, and quality of service characteristics of FHS. FHS can have significant implications on Internet traffic, if these services were to supplant P2P as the dominant content sharing technology.

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CoNEXT '10 Student Workshop: Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop

November 2010

56 pages

ISBN:9781450304689

DOI:10.1145/1921206

Program Chairs:
Philip Brighten Godfrey
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Chuanxiong Guo
Microsoft Research Asia
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Olaf Maennel
Loughborough University, UK

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Chan MGong MNaha RMahanti A(2020)Piracy on the Internet: Publisher-side Analysis on File Hosting Services2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)10.1109/ISNCC49221.2020.9297276(1-7)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC49221.2020.9297276
Lauinger TKirda EMichiardi P(2012)Paying for Piracy? An Analysis of One-Click Hosters’ Controversial Reward SchemesResearch in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses10.1007/978-3-642-33338-5_9(169-189)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33338-5_9

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