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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 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...

      --
      "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.

  4. 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).

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

    Shhh!!

    keep it on the dl

  6. 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."
  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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?