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That is one awful article. Arbitrarily cut in 4 pieces and never getting to the point. It is about a paper: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/CoNEXT_papers/11... [pdf] which from a first glance is not very good either.

Also the traffic is not what this is about but users uploading things.

Did anyone read the paper? Worth a second look or is it rubbish? "We demonstrate that a small fraction of publishers is responsible for 67% of the published content and 75% of the downloads." suggest the ladder. Not to mention that they talk about Bittorrent but actually mean The Pirate Bay.



Articles like these make me wish HN had a TL;DR option. Something like:

How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit

"Seeders put links in their content requesting that you visit their Adsense driven site" Click to read more...

Nice idea for my next hacking project maybe.


i did not read the paper but sigcomm is one of the premier networking conferences...so i do not expect the paper to be rubbish




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