BitTorrent at a glance ...
It is estimated that BitTorrent alone accounts for 18 to 35 percent of all traffic on the Internet. The colossal scale of the file-sharing network has defied deep analysis - up till now.
The Peer-to-Peer Research Institute conducts real-time and historical quantitive analysis of p2p networks, develops cutting edge Open Source software and publishes papers, reports and guidelines for this difficult-to-track domain.
At the moment, most of our work is documented on our peer to peer technology blog. Also hosted here is our free, open source (BSD license) high performance BitTorrent implementation, unworkable.