P2P protocols

BitTorrent Protocol Specification:

• Official www.bittorrent.com/protocol.html
• Wiki http://wiki.theory.org/index.php/BitTorrentSpecification

DirectConnect Protocol Specification:

• Hub Protocol: http://www.lwave.ca/shasta/
• DC project protocols: http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/wiki/ [Client-Hub/Client-Client]
• ADC extension 0.9 (superseeds DCTNG): http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/ADC.htm

eMule/eDonkey/ed2k Protocol Specification:

• eMule http://leibniz.cs.huji.ac.il/tr/acc/2005/HUJI-CSE-LTR-2005-3_emule.pdf
• eDonkey/eMule http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdonkey/
• ed2k http://www.efarm-project.net/data/docs/Protocol_V3_1_EN.pdf, ftp://ftp.kom.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/papers/HB02-1-paper.pdf

eXeem Protocol Specification:

• all the BitTorrent Protocol Specifications apply

Gnutella Protocol Specification:

• 0.4 Protocol: http://www9.limewire.com/developer/gnutella_protocol_0.4.pdf
• RFC 0.6 Protocol: http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/src/rfc-0_6-draft.html

FastTrack (KaZaA) Protocol Specification:

• Known parts: http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gift-fasttrack/giFT-FastTrack/PROTOCOL?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

MP2P (Manolito P2P):

• OpenLITO: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114489, http://openlito.sourceforge.net/
• Ethereal desc: http://www.ethereal.com/docs/dfref/m/manolito.html

Overnet Protocol Specification:

• https://opensvn.csie.org/mlnet/trunk/docs/overnet.txt

P2P consumers strike back

In a wild turn of events, it seems that the big'uns in the entertainment industry are starting to have some 'right of fair use' competition, when it comes to file-sharing:

• The Consumer Federation of America issues an 80 pages report on the P2P file-sharing issues.
• ZDNet advertises the movement.
• The Challenge of P2P group links to a lot of MGM vs. Grokster information and analysis

I wonder where this could be heading...

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