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BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers
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."
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.
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I file trading is peer-to-peer (decentralized) how can some central "authority" know what's going on?
...if someone could plot legit traffic against "illegal" traffic. My guess is that BitTorrent would account for a much higher percentage of legitimate file traffic as pretty much anyone who has a large file (e.g. Linux Distros) uses BitTorrent to distribute it.
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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.
I sure hope the RIAA doesn't look in Bittorrent's direction. There are a LOT of good legal uses for it. Moreso (in my mind) than KaZaA.
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....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).
"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."
And BitTorrent traffic isn't seasonal?
No surprises here, bit torrent is far supperior to Kazaa in almost every way.
The only thing that needs to be improved with bit torrent is a merger of all the small tracker sites into one big site where you can hook on to any torrent out there. Suprnova.org is getting there but still, more momentum needs to be developed.
That being said, the best thing about the bit torrent technology is that it's almost impossible for the RIAA to control it. The cat is out of the bag and theres no way it will be pushed back in.
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
MPAA monitors bittorent traffic from sites such as suprnova.org. They constantly send out letters to ISPs that explains which movie was donwloaded, and how the ISP should proceed with the client. So, downloading several movies from suprnova.org is not a good idea, because MPAA sees what everyone downloads. BitTorrent is in no way an anonymous download.
One of the problems with .torrents is diversity. I use suprnova.org to get my .torrents.
Does anyone else know of a good database of torrents? RSS Feeds? Websites?
If CacheLogic, then why not the RIAA?
If monitoring, then why not outright blocking?
Is that a slope, or a Slip-and-Slide[tm], ahead of me?
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"Shouldn't it work against both Kazaa and BT similarly? If kids are on vacation, they download less as a whole, so the decrease should be similar for both programs by my reckoning."
If we assume that kids have no interest in linux distros and other legitimate P2P uses and are dependent on P2P for copyrighted materials, then when kids are not online the majority of stuff that is still downloaded via P2P will be legitimate materials.
Since there are not many legitimate materials to download from kazaa, bittorent will come out ahead.
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I just dont trust a program called eDonkey for porn...
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People, people, people... The RIAA and MPAA look to slashdot to find out which file sharing systems to target next.
I sure hope the RIAA doesn't look in Bittorrent's direction. There are a LOT of good legal uses for it. Moreso (in my mind) than KaZaA.
Which is precisely why BT stands to legitimize open-structure p2p networks forever.
Napster really had no legitimate use. I mean, did you *ever* download a song from Napster that wasn't a bootleg? Neither did anybody else.
Kazaa also has very limited legitimate use. Other than renaming an encrypted tar file "Wild Donkeys do hot chicks.mpg" and using it as a backup vehicle, its use as a bona-fide legal distribution channel is pretty limited.
However, BT is different. There are plenty of BT users distributing bootleg movies, songs, and pr0n, but there are also plenty of sites using it to distribute legitimate demos, patches, ISO images, and other large files.
To think that BT allows somebody on a T1 to serve near an OC3 worth of bandwidth by distributing the load is just incredible. I don't think the industry would be willing to give up that advantage without a fight.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
New installations of spyware have dropped by 53%.
"We just don't know what is going on" said the CEO of Claria.
Who needs P2P software when people leave movies unprotected on their websites all the time? Click on any website on this google search, see what movies they have, and leech em.
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I've never seen direct connect mentioned on any of these studies or warnings. Even when my school, RIT, got warned and passed the warnings on to the students, they only complained about Kazaa and not direct connect, despite the fact that it is much larger on campus. Is there some big thing about Kazaa that I'm missing? No matter how rare the item is that I'm looking for, I'm sure to find several people that have it. I've never seen a reason to use anything else (yet).
think p2p is here to stay, and there are still features that need to be put in place univerally before it's mature, and all the various p2p flavors are comparable.
The various bits are there scattered across different p2p networks. IMNSHO, all p2p networks/clients ought to have:
-Swarming (as defined/used in BitTorrent)
-Privacy/anonymity (perhaps as much as in Freenet)
-Good searching (Kazaa, Napster, those types. With room for improvement all around)
-Open-source clients with no ads/spyware
-Decentralized/self-organizing networks (no central point of failure, or at least minimal)
-Browser/web server hooks to autoswarm web content (there ought to be bittorrent:// links)
Pardon my BitTorrent bias. I moderate the bittorrent_help mailing list, so I have more exposure to that.
All these features should someday be pushed into numerous language libraries, so that they become ubiquitous.
Am I the only individual here on Slashdot that isn't using a P2P client on a regular basis????????
I've never been unable to get a demo I wanted from a legitimate source.
I don't download pirate videos or music.
I've d/l linux distros direct or at distro sites with no problem.
So, in a short answer, why is using a P2P client sooo much better? From the consumer side that is?
I've read the info at the Bittorrent site.
And just to ask my fellow Sd folks...how safe is it?
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because I'd bet over half the bandwidth on kazaa is people trying to re-download something. As opposed to bittorrent, where the quality of files is almost guaranteed.
Not only are OSS people all gun-ho about it, but file hosting places (3dgamers.com comes to mind) are liking it too. I mean they post the New Hot Demo(tm) and get slammed with requests. Well you got three options:
1) Make people wait in line (which they hate).
2) Have ass-slow transfers (which people also hate).
3) Use BT so people help each other and a 2x increase in people equals a very small slowdown in overall transfer rate.
It really just makes sense as a protocol. You go to download something, the server contributes as much as it can, and clients pick up as much extra slack as they can. Only for the file you download, while you leave it on, so no "eating up the connection all the time" problems. If onyl one person downloads, well no net gain or loss for client or server. However with each additonal person downloading, rather than the server having to share it's bandwidth more and more, the clients help each other and the thransfer rate stays much more constant.
Hence why it has so much legit appeal. I really hope that the major browser makers start including BT in their browsers. They do that, and if it gets modified to run on the webserver directly, I imagine it could become the predominant file transfer protocol for mass distribution.