Rewards and Risks in P2P Content Delivery
Raimund K. Ege, Li Yang, Richard Whittaker · 2009
Abstract—The ever increasing speed of access to the Internet has enabled sharing of data on an unprecedented scale. Data of all forms and shapes is becoming easily accessible: large multi-media files are being routinely downloaded onto a plethora of end user devices. Peer-to-peer content delivery approaches enable massive scale in the amount of data volume that can be efficiently delivered. The openness of delivery demands adaptive and robust management of intellectual property rights. In this paper we describe a framework and its implementation to address the central issues in content delivery: a scalable peer-to-peer-based content delivery model, paired with an access control model that balances trust in end users with a risk analysis to the data provider. Our framework enables data providers to extract the maximum amount of return, i.e. value, from making their original content available. Our implementation architecture provides a protocol to leverage the greatest amount of reward from the intellectual property that is released to the Internet. Keywords-broadband file sharing; peer-to-peer content delivery; intellectual property rights for multi media