Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities
Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Aliandro Lima, Gustavo Wagner, Matei Ripeanu · 2005
We collect BitTorrent usage data across multiple file-sharing communities and analyze the factors that affect users' cooperative behavior. We find evidence that the design of the BitTorrent protocol results in increased cooperative behavior over other P2P protocols used to share similar content (e.g. Gnutella). We also investigate two additional community-specific mechanisms that foster even more cooperation.