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In this paper, we investigate the problem of copyright infringement in the peer-to-peer (P2P) environment, and propose a method of protection against piracy. The P2P software BitTorrent has become the main tool used to pirate copyright materials. Thus, we study the bit torrent packet itself in order to detect the destination and source of the piracy. The torrent meta-file is also analyzed to identify copyright material. As a result, we propose a system model for copyright protection against BitTorrent piracy. Our system consists of a hash database and protocol analyzer, a torrent meta-file crawler, and a copyright identifier.
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Lee, J., Kim, J. (2012). Modeling of a Copyright Protection System for the BitTorrent Environment. In: Kim, Th., et al. Computer Applications for Security, Control and System Engineering. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 339. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35264-5_7
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