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P4P? RIAA definitely won't be happy - May 30, 2008

Big file-sharing news! Jason Mick over at Daily Tech has the news that researchers at Yale "have come up with a breakthrough in file sharing technology. The new system coordinates Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers to raise internet efficiency, and perhaps file transfer speeds."
 
The team will be presenting their findings in a paper at the premier Seattle computer networking class ACM SIGCOMM 2008 in August. In the paper, they detail how P4P will reduce cost for ISPs and improve P2P performance for normal users. Silberschatz explains -- current P2P technologies do not have a sense of what network they're on and may do ridiculous things like making a long distance call to connect to a neighbor when transferring a file. 

The lack of intelligence translates in money lost for the ISPs, particularly for users with "unlimited" connections, and in time lost for the consumer, who could be receiving the file faster.

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