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Attacks on BitTorrent

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Brad Schonhorst
on January 18, 2008
in Network Security, Privacy and Spam
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Many media companies are paying big money to try and stop file sharing of copyrighted material. While the material in question is being shared illegally, many of the techniques these companies employ effect everyone by generating much additional internet traffic. In this presentation I present research into some new techniques currently being used to attack BitTorrent swarms and the prevalence of these attacks.

BitTorrent Presentation