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BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers

Posted by timothy on from the tragic-bittorrent-use-among-the-elderly dept.

prostoalex writes "CacheLogic attempted to measure the peer-to-peer network traffic by installing their network monitoring tools in data centers of large ISPs. The results are in, and Bram Cohen's BitTorrent overtook Kazaa's FastTrack network. BitTorrent traffic amounted to 53% of all peer-to-peer traffic, according to CacheLogic. It's worth noting, though, that Kazaa traffic is highly seasonal, as a lot of high-schoolers and college students are simply on vacation this time of year."

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  1. Seasonal Traffic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny, I used to work for a porn site back in the bubble. Same thing, our numbers plummeted in the summer due to college students being off.

    1. Re:Seasonal Traffic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Funny, I used to work for a porn site back in the bubble. Same thing, our numbers plummeted in the summer due to college students being off.

      Oops, small typo. Should read getting off.

    2. Re:Seasonal Traffic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      due to college students being off.

      I read that as "...college students beating off", which I would have thought would cause your numbers to increase sharply.

    3. Re:Seasonal Traffic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      So the numbers went back up in the fall due to all the college students beating off?

      I'm sure they held firm, even rose slightly.

    4. Re:Seasonal Traffic by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeh, as a former IEG guy, I remember that. Ah, those where the days! State-of-the-art equipment, an office in a glass tower just off Pike Place Market, gettin paid $$ to look at porn...

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      "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

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  3. Kids are such slackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know copyright infringement is a full time job. When I was a kid, we didn't have high speed internet... heck, we didn't even have any peer to peer programs. We had a BBS and Zmodem (or worse!) and we traded what we could! And we we liked it! 0 day all the way.

    1. Re:Kids are such slackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You 6-digiters... 0 day warez, available for download before or at the same time as an official store release.

    2. Re:Kids are such slackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      What's a 6-digiter?

    3. Re:Kids are such slackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      People on Slashdot with id #'s higher than 99,999. #'s 100,000-999,999 are 6-digiters.

    4. Re:Kids are such slackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


      What's Slashdot?

  4. Ya but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Theres just some porn I just can't find on BT that I can on eDonkey or Kazaa.

    1. Re:Ya but... by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I just dont trust a program called eDonkey for porn...

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      "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  5. Great, Slashdot.... by eril · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....keep on screwing us by pointing the man in the direction of the next big thing. If you guys would keep your mouths shut, we could have the man chasing after Kazaa for years to come....just like he's still bitching about Doom as the game those kids play that cause 'em to go postal (no pun intended).

  6. Re:Nowadays... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    *gets mental image of mod thinking "Oooh! Aaah! Fhqwhgads!!"

  7. You want to blow this? by PhatKat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shhh!!

    keep it on the dl

  8. same book, same cover, same price by radiumhahn · · Score: 5, Funny

    People, people, people... The RIAA and MPAA look to slashdot to find out which file sharing systems to target next.

    1. Re:same book, same cover, same price by Eil · · Score: 2, Funny


      People, people, people... The RIAA and MPAA look to slashdot to find out which file sharing systems to target next.

      I'd also like to add that nobody here should mention the fact that you can Google for nearly every single torrent listing site in existance. Nor that .torrent files can be traded on websites, email, and chat rooms. Nor that there are dozens of bittorrent clients available for free download.

      Let's keep this one to ourselves, shall we?

  9. And in other news.... by scifience · · Score: 5, Funny

    New installations of spyware have dropped by 53%.

    "We just don't know what is going on" said the CEO of Claria.

  10. Re:It would be interesting... by vidnet · · Score: 4, Funny
    My guess is that BitTorrent would account for a much higher percentage of legitimate file traffic

    Yes, BitTorrent is probably used for a hundred times more legitimate traffic. 0.1% as opposed to 0.001%.

    But seriously... I can't remember when I last downloaded a distro on cds. Will we see netinstalls using bittorrent soon?

  11. Re:It would be interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quick! Somebody restate what the original poster said, but in yet another way!

  12. Un-Originality. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    BitTorrent was used more than eDonkey. And in a related story, Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" is heard more than Queen's "Under Pressure".

    Coincidence? People fooled by hype? You decide!

  13. Re:It would be interesting... by UserGoogol · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ummm... isn't that business entirely based around screwing artists?

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    "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
  14. Re:and this story made slashdot because? by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
    seasonal...oh...I guess that's just seasonal for those who live NORTH of the equator eh?

    Yes, that's true. Only for the vast majority of the human race.

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    Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
  15. Re:It would be interesting... by gekkotron · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, that's porn.