October 25, 2004
P2P Traffic on the Increase
Frank points to this new study showing that P2P traffic has continued to increase; see Wired summary here. Very, very interesting support for what CacheLogic stated in its traffic report as well as for what BayTSP and BigChampagne have been saying for quite some time about usage and files.
There a couple more variables I’d like thrown into the mix – not that they’d necessarily change the basic conclusions, but they’d add nice clarification.
How do these increases compare to increases in Internet usage generally? That is, as more people connect to the Internet, esp. through broadband, we’d expect more P2P users as well. In relation to those increases, how fast is P2P use and traffic increasing? What’s the demographic breakdown there?
Also, we know traffic is going up, but how much of that is due to people downloading/uploading larger files? Again, with more people on broadband, we’d expect more people to start downloading movies, not just music. BitTorrent’s rise seems to suggest as much. Of course, even if the increase in traffic was solely due to more movie downloading, that wouldn’t mean the lawsuits are working; it would be rather absurd to think that so many people react to the lawsuits by substituting movie downloading for music downloading, thinking it’s legal/safe. But the figures would still be interesting nonetheless.
Filed by Derek Slater at 11:20 pm under General news
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