BitTorrent Charts: Wiredset teams up with Infofilter
Peer2Peer networking is alive and strong, in spite of the music industry's attempt to squash them through lawsuits. How P2P affects the music industry has been debated since Napster made their debut, and it appears that new methods of P2P will continue to be devised as others are shut down. A growing P2P system is the BitTorrent which allows people to share entire albums or large video files. Where most P2P networks are full of individual songs and files, BitTorrent is meant for sharing large packets of files.
In 2006 Wiredset teamed up with South by Southwest to provide a torrent of hundreds of mp3s and film previews being featured at the popular convention. Wiredset's interest in the BitTorrent continues as they have now teamed up with Infofilter to chart the top 50 Torrents being shared over the BitTorrent network. The available charts include the Top 50 Anime, Game, Music, Software, TV, and Video Torrents. Each chart shows the current rankings, yesterday's rankings, and the number peers + seeds of the torrent. The charts also provide a link to each torrent.
Wiredset's press release explains:
10/17/06 – Wiredset, the digital marketing agency, announced Tuesday it has added BitTorrent peer-to-peer charts to its Infofilter (TM) marketing intelligence platform and is offering daily tracking updates free to the public.
Wiredset is offering charts of the 50 most-downloaded Anime, Game, Music, Software, Television and Video files distributed over the Internet using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol that allows users to download files from other computers.
"Wiredset's unique charts allow entertainment companies to better understand the reality of media asset trading," said Mark Ghuneim, C.E.O. and founder of Wiredset LLC.
This feature Infofilter marketing intelligence platform can help television networks, film studios, recording artists, record companies and independent producers measure marketplace trends and impact in the important and growing P2P distribution system.
The charts are based on the indexing of more than 30,000 trackers, over 200 individual BitTorrent Web sites and the monitoring of nearly half a million active torrents, Wiredset said.
For more information, visit Infofilter's Web site at www.infofilter.net.