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P2P Now and Then

Posted by Zonk on from the distributing-stuff-in-little-pieces dept.

brajesh writes "There was an earlier story on Slashdot regarding eDonkey overtaking BitTorrent in P2P traffic. The BBC story was based on this press release by CacheLogic. To expand on this, there is a comprehensive analysis of P2P trends in 2005 by the same firm. The report makes some insights into the present and future of P2P, particularly interesting in the light of recent steps taken by BBC -BBC iMP and others. The analysis also makes some observations about the break-up of P2P content."

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  1. First Pirate! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Yarr! Avast ye!

  2. Now and then? by Kenja · · Score: 3, Funny
    Way back "then" P2P was used for nothing but the exchange of bootleged copies of star wars and porn. Now its used to exchange information noble of purpose that will enrich humanity for all time.

    Or it could still be the porn thing.

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    1. Re:Now and then? by Orgazmus · · Score: 1, Funny

      Back in my day, we had to walk 5 miles in 19 feet deep snow to get our porn!

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    2. Re:Now and then? by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's because in snow that deep, nobody could see you wanking on the walk back home.

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  3. I thought the trend was... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...towards more fancy looking interfaces
    http://gnunet.org/screenshots.php3.

  4. This Missing Slice by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny
    Would have been interesting to see a pie chart with a slice showing the amount of P2P traffic impacted by the ??AA lawsuits.

    Or maybe it was there and I just missed its sub-pixel width on my high resolution monitor.

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  5. Re:mirror - Who modded this Informative??? by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny
    analysis of worldwide Penis-to-Penis (P2P) traffic

    I would hazard a guess that whomever modded this Informative +1 didn't read it closely enough. You were suckered!

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  6. Your problem with BitTorrent is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your problem with BitTorrent is that you're actually trying to download Linux CD and other legitimate files. Go for torrent warez, the download speeds will make you cum.

    The word I had to type in to confirm I'm not a script was "brothel".