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The.Sniper.2009.DVDRip.XviD-CoWRY is a popular BitTorrent swarm sharing "un-licensed" copy of Cantonese-language action movie "The Sniper"/"Sun cheung sau"

Movie description from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194624/

A police sniper teams up with a hot-headed rookie to take down his former friend and teammate, who is exacting revenge on the police force.

Push.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx is a popular BitTorrent swarm sharing "un-licensed" copy of Push action movie.

Movie description from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/:

Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Quite frankly, it is not movie I'll spend my time warching, but ayway, somehow it managed to attract quite a lot of BitTorrent downloads.

Movie reliase in USA - 6 February 2009

Following discussion at IETF P2PRG , I'm publishing here all "AS localization" data I collected so far - this page to be updated as more data collected.Please let me know if you interested in similar collections for newer torrents.

These datasets are intended for research purpose only. Use it on your risk only - no warranty and blah,blah,blah... Reference for this blog is not required , but deeply appreciated.

I had been honored to present some of my "micro-research" data at IETF74 P2P reserach group (P2PRG) meeting.

Detailed transcript of my presentation to follow soon - need some free time to make it right. 

With 40-70% of total Internet traffic, P2P is unquestionably the main factor in ISPs' technological and business considerations. Would "Managed Peer Selection" be a solution?

Made in Israel

Meeting notes by Michael Olson ,
http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.com,
blog http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.blogspot.com

A View of the Consumer Internet

by Michael Olson  ,
http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.com,
blog http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.blogspot.com

At the February 7^th CTC meeting we had a great presentation by George Zachary of Charles River Ventures on his view of the social network-driven consumer Internet. George brought to the group insights derived from his experience in the venture capital industry, the social network Internet and the Hollywood movie culture. He shared his thoughts on what that means with the rise of social networks and the ability to derive revenues on the evolving Web. You will find my outline of his presentation below but let me highlight some of the thoughts embedded in the outline.

At the recent CoolTech Club meeting we enjoyed an excellent presentation by William Norton , Equinix co-founder and Chief Technical Liaison. Bill presented his calculations on cost of digitized media distribution over various Internet architectures (presentation – full paper) .

Apparently, convenient Content Delivery Network (CDN – Akamai and others) architecture has a quite significant price tag – about $0.24 per full-format movie. Some cost improvement can be made by deploying content servers in few major peering points managed by Equinix ( surprise ! ;-)  - cost decrease to about $0.17 per movie. This is certainly improvement over reported $1 spend by Netflix for snail-mail delivery, but still to high for mass adoption (Also , it questionable if existing Internet infrastructure can survive significant volume of video content).