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I have noted before the difficulty of giving reliable measurements of p2p traffic; so it is with interest (and a pinch of salt) that we come to new figures again showing a decline in p2p traffic. This time the report is from Arbour Networks and reports a decline of over 71% between 2007 and 2009. That sounds significant. So what does that mean re users behaviour on the internet?

Does clamping down on piracy via the law book stop piracy?  It's seems it might not...it just changes form:

There is an interesting discussion going on about how the flow of data moving around the internet gives it a 'shape' and what that shape means. You can see this discussion written up in an interesting article in the New York Times; 'Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net'. So what is mean by the 'shape' of the Internet?

I'm happy to say that I am going to be talking at the 2010 Virt3c@Hull, at Hull University.  Keynote speakers include; Gabriella Coleman on 'Cabals, Crisis, and Conflict on the Virtual Frontier' (Friday) and Mathieu O’Neil on 'Theory and Practice of Online Research: Power, Expertise, Critique' (Sat).  My talk is part of the session entitled 'Conflicts in Open & Free Software Communities' on Sat 20th March, 12.00- 1.45:

This is an interesting article worth a read. One of the people behind The Pirate Bay is trying to apply the same ideas they used regarding sharing content to the income side of distribution:

Anyone who's used Twitter much will have noticed the frequent service outages - aka Whale Fail - after the image us users see then this happens. Given Twitter's enormous growth of the past few years (sometimes exceeding 1000%!) then the demands on it's central servers must be huge. Which is where p2p technology could help - as it scales with demand because as more people join they also bring their capacity too;

I have written a guest post on the p2p foundation blog...

One of the authors of the p2p paper I looked at in my last posting emailed me with an update of thier work worth sharing with you..

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.