Survey on Copyright Protection in Peer To Peer Network

摘要

Recently, P2P technology has become so popular that a large number of files are being exchanged by millions of users concurrently. However, due to the significant growth of P2P file sharing, even copyrighted files are also actively exchanged so copyright infringement has become a serious issue. In particular, P2P file sharing is recognized as a killer application for the P2P technology, and several P2P file sharing systems have been used by many users from the late 90's to the present, including Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa and Bit Torrent. However, the popularization of such P2P file sharing causes several undesired.........