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26 October 2006, 13:28 P2P traffic is growing in GermanyDespite thousands of lawsuits filed by IFPI against users of
BitTorrent, eDonkey, DirectConnect, Gnutella, Limewire, etc.
peering is thriving in Europe. Here are the numbers: “P2P traffic
uses a share of 30% (daytime) and 70% (nighttime) of the overall
Internet traffic in Germany. The absolute data volume has risen by
10% between June and October 2006. BitTorrent has surpassed eDonkey
as the most popular file sharing network and causes more than half
of all P2P traffic in Germany. Both networks generate over 95% of
the P2P traffic and have nearly displaced previously popular
networks such as Kazaa's FastTrack.” (from a survey by Ipoque). As to what is
shared, for example, for BitTorrent the figures are: Music 22%,
Video (movies) 21%, Video (porn) 15%. |
