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BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lot-of-bits dept.

Pranjal writes "According to a reuters article on Yahoo, BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web pages." The article goes on to talk about how BT is no longer beneath the radar of those who like to sue file sharers.

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  1. Oh yea. by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Funny

    And spam uses another 60% I'm sure

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  2. Re:I'd love a breakdown of legal vs. illegal files by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Presidential Debates, funny commercials

    You put a comma where "aka" should be.

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  3. Re:Prediction: The creators get sued anyway by XiQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't look like they can bankrupt Bram Cohen much more than he was some time ago...

  4. Re:I'd love a breakdown of legal vs. illegal files by PSUdaemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Porn? I mean, isn't that what this whole crazy internet thing is for?

  5. So let me add this up... by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    35% of internet traffic is BitTorrent
    50% is pr0n
    10% is SPAM
    4% is actual content
    And the remaining 1% is slashdot talking about the 4% of legit websites

    1. Re:So let me add this up... by Al+Dimond · · Score: 5, Funny

      Then where's the room for /. talking about BitTorrent, pornography and spam? Seems to me that the 1% of slashdot can be broken down just about the same way as the rest of the internet... .35% /. talking about BT .5% /. talking about porn .1% /. talking about spam .04% /. talking about actual content .01% /. talking about itself.

      Of that .01%, there can be a similar breakdown: .0035% /. talking about /. talking about BT .005% /. talking about /. talking about porn .001% /. talking about /. talking about spam .0004% /. talking about /. talking about actual content .0001% /. talking about /. talking about...

      Although I'd be willing to be /. spends more than 1% of it's time talking about itself, such as this post, and about 30% of the previous.

      (furthermore, I left out the proportion of /. traffic created by its ugly and stupid layout scheme, that could be less ugly and break less browsers AND use less bandwidth with the miracle of CSS. But I digress.)

  6. I'm not stealing anything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We're studying our options, as we do with all new technologies which are abused by people to engage in theft."

    Phew, good thing I only use it to engage in copyright infringement.

  7. 35% bittorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My medium:
    35% bittorrent
    64% web
    1% other

    By content:
    99% p0rn
    1% Slashdot

  8. Link is slashdotted by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody got a torrent?

  9. Re:Prediction: The creators get sued anyway by TykeClone · · Score: 4, Funny
    without backrupting anyone.

    You misspelled "while bankrupting everyone"

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  10. Someone figure this out for me... by sserendipity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can someone tell me how many percentage points there are in all the internets? I'm pretty certain that about 70% is pron, 50% is spam mail and at least 85% of all internet traffic was in the form of mysterious, partisan, hard to prove or disprove, statistics about internet traffic.

  11. Re:The MPAA's response... by mcmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    double secret bankrupt him!

  12. Re:I'd love a breakdown of legal vs. illegal files by mcmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny
    google: "torrent" 2,370,000
    google: "torrent anime" 239,000

    google: "torrent anime tentacle" 29,000

    That's the unhealthy 10%

  13. Re:The MPAA's response... by timeOday · · Score: 4, Funny
    I saw a bum sitting by the side of the road. "Help me," he said, "I'm completely broke."

    "Wow," I thought. "It must be nice to have a net worth up there at $0. Thanks to credit cards I'm still paying off a sandwich I ate 5 years ago!"

  14. Re:Prediction: The creators get sued anyway by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just looked at the methlabs peerguardian page.. it says:

    PeerGuardian
    "100% accuracy , 0% CPU usage, blocking of ALL protocols, kernel-level

    yeah, I unplug my network cable occasionally too :)

  15. Re:Prediction: The creators get sued anyway by Horizon_99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amen brother, I don't go anywhere without my mutated anthrax... for duck huntin'