摘要：Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are today one of the main carriers of (illegal) content
copying. Although at first glance it looks like everyone except for the recording industry is for
P2P networks, they negatively interfere with the increased need of network bandwidth for non
file sharing services. A solution ¨C not only proposed by content owners ¨C could be filtering P2P
data from network traffic. The present article, beginning with a more general introduction to P2P
networks, aims to discuss this issue in particular.
