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December 01, 2003
Student-supported file-sharing
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, on a whim I ran a few queries on eDonkey and LimeWire, two of the most popular file-sharing programs. I was searching on popular software titles, searches I've run in the past to see how widely available those packages are (for research purposes).
I noticed that where in the past, these searches had turned up dozens of well-connected machines hosting the download, they returned few or no results on the day before Thanksgiving.
This is by no means scientific, just an anecdotal observation. It would be an interesting study to track file-sharing networks for some popular titles (movies, music, software) and see how availability of those relates to the class schedules of well-connected college campuses.
Posted by pete at December 1, 2003 08:25 AM
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