Pirates and Samaritans: A decade of measurements on peer production and their implications for net neutrality and copyright

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 701-712

  Pouwelse, Johan A ^a   Garbacki, Pawel ^a   Epema, Dick ^a   Sips, Henk ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Commons based peer production; Copyright; P2P

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

BIT TORRENTS; CASE STUDIES; COLLABORATION; COMMONS-BASED PEER PRODUCTION; CONTENT INDUSTRIES; COPYRIGHT LAWS; LARGE DISCREPANCIES; LEGAL ACTIONS; P2P; P2P SYSTEMS; P2P TRAFFICS; PEER TO PEERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 56949088213     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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