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A blog about games, networked media, technology, evolution & nature: Principally; p2p technology and p2p as a philosophy, the evolution of technology, network theory, media studies, media ecology and other interesting stuff.

Tomas Rawlings
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  • March 7, 2011
  • 05:04 AM
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Research Suggests that File Sharing has a Positive Effect of Film Audiences

by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming

This is an interesting bit of research, adding to the growing body of data trying to understand the positive or negative impacts of P2P downloading of films and the like. (The US General Accounting Office did a huge survey of the reseach in 2009 and were unable to conclude a positive nor negative effect either way.) This [...]... Read more »

Sung Wook Ji. (2007) Piracy Impact on the Theatrical Movie Industry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online. info:/

  • November 23, 2010
  • 03:42 AM
  • 393 views

Discussions beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’

by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming

Andersson, J (2010). Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’ vs. ‘information wants to be free’: How Swedish file-sharers motivate their action Unpublished as yet Discussion of paper: <em>Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’ vs. ‘information wants to be free’: How Swedish file-sharers motivate their action</em> by Jonas Andersson of [...]... Read more »

Andersson, J. (2010) Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’ vs. ‘information wants to be free’: How Swedish file-sharers motivate their action. Unpublished as yet. info:/

  • January 27, 2010
  • 05:52 AM
  • 1,579 views

Looking at Peer-to-Peer Optimization Methods

by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming

P2P algorithms can offer robustness and communication efficiency over more centralised GRID methods. So authors compared to p2p algorithms performance searching in large-scale and unreliable networks.
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Balázs Bánhelyi, Marco Biazzini, Alberto Montresor, and Márk Jelasity. (2009) Peer-to-Peer Optimization in Large Unreliable Networks with Branch-and-Bound and Particle Swarms. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, 87-92. info:/

  • November 1, 2009
  • 04:01 PM
  • 754 views

Bias in Measuring p2p Networks

by Tomas Rawlings in A Great Becoming



 
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Stutzbach, D., Rejaie, R., Duffield, N., Sen, S., & Willinger, W. (2009) On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(2), 377-390. DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2008.2001730  

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