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Ogg Vorbis Share Reaches 12.3% on P2P Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the lies-damn-lies-and-maybe-just-maybe-truth dept.

prostoalex writes "According to CacheLogic survey, 61.44% of the peer-to-peer traffic nowadays is video, with audio taking distant second place, representing 11.34% of global traffic. Moreover, 12.3% of all the music files traded on P2P networks are in Ogg format. Almost all of the OGG files are traded via BitTorrent protocol with most of the growth coming from Asia, CacheLogic says."

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  1. Nice misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    12.3% of MUSIC transfers, which is 11.34% of all traffic -- so Ogg makes up 1.4% of all P2P traffic. Which ain't bad at all, but is nowhere near 12.3

    1. Re:Nice misleading title by leoxx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, not many people download movies in OGG format, and the ones that do probably spend a lot of time trying to figure out why the sound works perfectly but the picture is so garbled.

    2. Re:Nice misleading title by joebutton · · Score: 5, Informative

      > Yeah, not many people download movies in OGG
      > format, and the ones that do probably spend a lot
      > of time trying to figure out why the sound works
      > perfectly but the picture is so garbled.

      Actually ogg is a container format which can contain both sound and video. Vorbis is the audio format.

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  2. Re:OGG by hungrygrue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Both are closed formats. To the best of my knowledge, the only way to play wma files under Linux/BSD is to use Microsoft's DLL files which is illegal (Though if you have a legal copy of Windows I suppose that is a grey area. I and many other Linux users, however, do not own or use Windows). MP3 support requires a license fee http://mp3licensing.com/ OGG is an open standard with no strings or restrictions.

  3. Amazing where your media goes by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My brother took a copy of his Black Adder DVDs back with him to China in Xvid+Vorbis format (to save damaging the originals).

    6 months later I buy a pirate copy in Mexico to show to a friend because I don't have *my* originals with me, and it was the same files (or at least, the same checksum when I checked with him). Also on the disk was a vorbis codec and instructions about how to install it... and how to rip new media with it to best effect.

    Something to think about.

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  4. Re:Downloading Garbage by aevan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Off hand, i'd say a lot? Ayu, Hikki, all the idol singers, etc have a large circulation. Not to mention cpop and kpop like BoA with followings all over.

    For example, a survey in thailand gave thai teens to prefer local as opposed to foreign (i.e. western) at 90%+. Just check the content on the MTV Thailand for a large quantity of their local music.

    Most of my friends are asian in asia, and prefer their own music as opposed to north american derived.

    I'd recommend giving your own head a shake and stop living in a north american/euro-centric dreamland. The entire world doesn't automatically desire NA goods by virtue of their being from NA, and forsake their own. For example, check out oricon for listings of what is popular in Japan-you will see some western but a lot of local music as well (predominantly usually).

    I'll grant western music is heavily pirated, but so too is their local; you pirate what you want to hear, and if local music is preferenced...