P2P File-Sharing User Survey

[scase123]

Hi all,

I’m a masters student at MIT and my thesis research involves modeling user behavior in P2P file-sharing systems. As part of my research, I’m conducting an ANONYMOUS survey that will help me model the P2P “system� as it exists today.

The survey consists of 12 questions, and you can respond to all, some or none of them. The PHP data collection script does not log any identifying information – it simply logs a timestamp and the responses to each of the questions.

If anyone can spend a few minutes to help out my research, I would really appreciate it. The link to the survey is:

http://cc.media.mit.edu/p2p/

This survey is approved by MIT’s Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES). Information about confidentiality and other research guidelines can be found at http://web.mit.edu/committees/couhes/pr ... veys.shtml

Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have any questions about the survey or the study itself.

Thanks all for your help!

Scott Case
MIT Sloan 2004

[TheParanoidOne]

It's interesting to note that DC++ (even Direct Connect itself) doesn't appear on the list. Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows. :shrug:

For questions 3 and 4 you ask for rankings in order of importance but it is unclear whether you mean that 1 is the most important or the other way around. It's slightly ambiguous.

Is this survey supposed to be directed only at US residents? The reason I ask is that in question 8 you mention the RIAA specifically. Did you mean only them or were they used as an example?

Do you have any other research (published or unpublished) in this area that you can point us to?