Method for monitoring and providing information over a peer to peer network

A method for monitoring search requests for selected objects by a node on a decentralized peer to peer network having at least two nodes and removing responses from the network, said method comprising the steps of:

• a. interposing at least one pseudonode on said network, said at least one pseudonode configured to provide at least one IP address and optionally at least one client ID and having at least one selected requested object stored at said at least one pseudonode;
• b. monitoring said network through the at least one pseudonode to detect search requests matching said at least one selected requested object;
• c. replacing, at the at least one pseudonode, the search term within the search request with a unique search ID comprising random characters;
• d. forwarding, from the at least one pseudonode, said search request with the unique search ID to other nodes of the network;
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• e. the other nodes finding no matches to the search request with the unique search ID based on the search request including the random characters, thereby frustrating the search request within the decentralized peer to peer network.

A method for monitoring supplemental search requests for selected objects by a node on a decentralized peer to peer network, said network having at least two nodes, and providing a response to substantially all of such requesting nodes, said method comprising the steps of:

• a. interposing at least one pseudonode on said network, said at least one pseudonode configured to provide at least one IP address and optionally at least one client ID, said at least one pseudonode having at least one stored object corresponding to a requested object stored at said at least one pseudonode;
• b. monitoring said network through the at least one pseudonode to detect a supplemental search request matching said at least one stored object;
• c. acquiring a unique search ID associated with the detected supplemental search request, the unique search ID generated by any network node requesting said object matching said at least one stored object;
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• d. responding to each such requesting node representing the unique search ID with results that indicate that the requested object is available from one or more selected nodes on the decentralized peer to peer network, wherein the one or more selected nodes do not exist;
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• e. utilizing results, by each such requesting node, to unsuccessfully obtain information associated with the requested object since the one or more selected nodes to not exist.