Maturing Net Grows More Slowly

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has an article covering the slowing growth rate of Internet traffic." From the article: "Growth rates in some territories was staying high, said Mr. Mauldin, at 76% in Asia and 70% in Latin American but even these were down on 2004. Currently the amount of traffic flowing between nations is approximately one terabit per second. If growth rates hold up this is likely to hit three terabits per second by 2008. Much of the growth over the last few years has come about because of the rise in the popularity of file-sharing that encourages people to swap and share large media files, said Mr. Mauldin. "

Comments

Re:Is P2P traffic really THAT high?

[colonslashslash]

I could be wrong of course, but last I checked HTTP was still the #1 protocol in use, and there's no data here to prove that p2p is sucking up more bandwidth then that.

Actually, in terms of quantity of traffic, BitTorrent is way in the lead with roughly 35% of all internet traffic, followed by eMule and Fastrack.

Source:Cache Logic

Re:How about instead of....

[vertinox]

P2P is used for stealing stuff. Plain and simple.

Ok here we go again...

Stealing and theft by legal definition of the USA courts means you have denied other the use or value or therof property they legally own. Therefore theft is a crime that is tried in criminal courts...

Downloading movies and music is copyright violation which is a civil infraction. Therefore Copyright Infringment is tried in civil courts...

Do you know what the main and most important legal definition between these two matters are? You should know this because if anyone were ever to bring you to court...

In a criminal court, they have to prove you are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt... A civil court does not.

Think about what that means... It's very important that you know this, but many people in the US are not aware of this minor fact unless of course they had the speech from the local judge after they were made to go to Jury duty *coughs*