Gnutella

An Examination of File-sharing on the Internet “Napster and its founder held the promise of everything the new medium of the Internet encompassed: youth, radical change and the free exchange of information. But youthful exuberance would soon give way to reality as the music industry placed a bull's-eye squarely on Napster.” I. Introduction Today the use of a computer has provided many privileges to its users, and among those privileges the main and largest one is the distribution

This paper looks at the gift giving tradition between the Natives and the Europeans. Carlos and Lewis’s “Marketing in the Land of Hudson Bay” article explains in great detail the strategies used by the Hudson Bay Company to develop a trading relationship with the Natives, as well as the trends in trading. The article also elucidates that in order to understand its customer’s culture and demands, the Hudson Bay Company participated in Native traditions one of which was to present gifts to Native traders

Schieffelin describes gift exchange as a ‘rhetorical gesture in social communication’, it can be used as a method of solidifying, integrating and defining social relationships through the non-market exchange of goods, it is a social, cultural and economic experience. This ritual creates a respectful bond between both the giver and receiver. Previously gift exchange was considered more of a cultural tradition and religious practice, however contemporary gift exchange does not commemorate the rituals’

How do gift exchanges and commodity transactions shape your everyday interactions with others? The flow of gifts and commodities between individuals is a significant aspect of our society as a whole. Gifts are things, often material objects, that are exchanged between groups or individuals that have some kind of relationship. The value of this gift is dependent on the nature, significance and goals of the relationship. Commodities are objects that move between people through transactions with minimal

In this era, millions of people either download or stream music. Music apps focus on providing the public with free music to listen or download; YouTube provides the public to watch music videos. Yahoo Music, ITunes, and many other software offers streaming music to the public. There are literally billions of songs available to download, which are easy to get. All the public has to do is install a file the allows you to share programs. Anyone who has a phone or a computer can download music for free

Do you have a boating enthusiast in your family or maybe a friend who relishes sailing? Then maybe you should be thinking of nautical gifts as a solution for your gift-giving requirements for them. It seems the ideas for gifts are unbounded when it comes to a boating theme. When probing for a great present for one of your friends who is into sailing, finding a boating item is easier done online because there are just not many boating-kind stores at the local mall. Looking around the web for objects

Most of us are members of many groups, or workplaces that have secret Santa gift exchanges around Christmas time. It can be difficult to make a decision as to what to get for a person that we barely know - so let 's stick to the basics. These gifts are sure to impress, and come in under budget - and leave people wondering "who got me this fantastic gift". Here are some of the top secret Santa gifts for 2008. When taking part in a secret Santa exchange in the office we don 't always know the person

fail in downloading a rare document that is available as a BitTorrent seed from a Comcast user. In the case of a typical Gnutella node, RST forgery will destroy the node's ability to discover and establish proper communications with other parts of the Gnutella network. Gnutella connections are generally started in either direction: Comcast user connects outwards, or other Gnutella nodes connect inwards. In both of these examples, Comcast's packet forgery prevents the transfer of data rather than delaying

Digital music piracy has been a worry of the music industry since the creation of Napster in 1998. Piracy is the act of stealing something that does not belong to you which has been outlined in our society as something that is bad or against the law. There are many articles out there that highlight music piracy but four main important ones include: “The Music Industry on (the) Line? Surviving Music Piracy in a Digital Era” by Jelle Janssens, “Neutralizing Music Piracy: An Empirical Examination” by

As discussed in the Problem Statement, there are several foundational flaws in the centralized architecture design of the C&C Botnets systems, which is leading the attackers to develop and use a Peer-to-Peer based control architecture designs like “Phatbot” [14], “Slapper” [12], “Nugache” [15], “Sinit” [13] etc., for the Botnet systems. These Peer-to-Peer based control architecture designs have multiple advantages like eliminating the need of using "Bootstrap" process which is a common process in