SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING BITTORRENT CONTENT AND THE COMPUTERS THAT SHARE BITTORRENT CONTENT

摘要

In one embodiment, one or more BitTorrent management pages, such as an index site or a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed, may be scanned for indicia of a torrent file that is associated with one or more search terms. After the torrent file is located, information associated with the torrent file may be utilized to initiate the downloading of one or more portions of the content indicated by the torrent file over a network from swarm computers utilizing a BitTorrent Protocol. As the content is being downloaded from the swarm computers, identification information associated with each swarm computer may be obtained. Data associated with the torrent file and the identification information may be stored at a database. Thereafter, a client may search the database to locate one or more swarm computers that may be sharing, for example, unauthorized or illegal information.

主权项

1. A system for monitoring a network, the system comprising:
one or more network interfaces connected to communicate data over the network; a processor coupled to the network interfaces and adapted to execute one or more processes; and a memory configured to store a process executable by the processor, the process when executed operable to:
scan a BitTorrent management page for indicia of a torrent file associated with one or more search terms, wherein the BiTorrent management page is a type of BitTorrent management page of a plurality of types of BitTorrent management pages,initiate download of one or more portions of content associated with the torrent file from one or more swarm computers over the network,obtain identification information associated with the one or more swarm computers, andstore selected torrent information associated with the torrent file and the identification information associated with the one or more swarm computers on one or more storage devices.