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Peer to peer applications have gained high popularity in the past years. In particular, P2P media streaming architectures have attracted much attention, so that audio and video sharing is causing a large fraction of the Internet traffic today. In this paper we introduce a new peer to peer architecture that focuses on distributed video on demand file sharing and that is based on point-to-point...