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P2P Population Growing Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the goin-for-a-new-record-high dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Slyck news is reporting that the file-sharing population has recovered from its mid-year plateau and is once again growing. At 9.45 million users, it is only slightly below its greatest height of 9.6 million users in August. Keep in mind however; these numbers do not represent the population of the BitTorrent community, which would surely add many millions more."

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  1. No, no, no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The numbers are down. No one is using P2P. P2P is dead.

    Got it? If we keep that message up, the *AA will go away.

    1. Re:No, no, no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I thought the *AA had some sort of twelve step program for quiting?

  2. It's All Criminal Activity, You'll See by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know, in your heart that it's all ripping off profits of hardworking, honest, family-type people who really have to scrape to make ends meet in the record industry... you *

    Ah, crap, I can't keep typing this with a straight face...

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  3. Re:Trend? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're so silly! This is obviously a side effect of letting part of the PATRIOT act lapse. Everyone knows that P2P pirates are really aiding and abetting terrorism!

  4. Re:Trend? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article says, "Various reasons, such as returning or departing college students, broadband penetration...

    Since a lot of what is shared on p2p is porn, I agree that penetration is one of the driving influences.

  5. Banning P2P by NotoriousGOD · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only way ISPs could block P2P is if they blocked every single goddam port excluding 21, 80 and a few others for AIM. Then someone would make filesharing that used those ports. So no worries, P2P isn't going anyway. Besides, it's part of the constitution. Remember prohibition? I don't, but I heard that shit was crazy.

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    Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
    1. Re:Banning P2P by pdxmac · · Score: 2, Funny

      Want a bet on this? Any service can run on any port.

      You mean, like when GP said:

      Then someone would make filesharing that used those ports.

      I understand that reading multiple paragraphs or TFA is too much to ask. But, you couldn't read the next sentence in the same paragraph?

      Bad form....

  6. Re:Trend? by bitflusher · · Score: 5, Funny

    No it was Duke Nukem, it took forever to download though

  7. Because I want to listen to it now! by od05 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was listening to Hard Attack and Sirius Radio and really started to like Between The Buried and me. Never heard of the band but liked it. I looked it up on the internet and bought two tickets to a show in town. Tickets were $13.50 each, but with the fees a set of TWO tickets cost me $47. That's almost double the price! That's a lot of money to spend on a band I've only heard on the radio a few times.

    So I tried to buy the CD on the bands website, and the store keeps fucking up. Won't let me buy it. Page acts like it's about to load up and then stops. Maybe it's because I'm using a mac, maybe it's just messed up.

    I'd like to copy the CD onto my iPod so I can listen to the whole thing first. I don't even want the CD, I'd like to listen to it tonight, don't want to wait for the mail.

    Can somebody upload a Bitorrent of the the Alaska CD please? I tried to buy it really.

  8. 9.45 million users... by rampant+mac · · Score: 4, Funny
    "At 9.45 million users, it is only slightly below its greatest height of 9.6 million users in August."

    I hate being the one asking, but, I gotta wonder...

    How many trillions of megabytes is that, in porn?

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    I like big butts and I cannot lie.
    1. Re:9.45 million users... by dotoole · · Score: 3, Funny

      Approx 123,542,355,931 DDDs (Debbie Does Dallas)

  9. Re:Trend? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "And Narnia. If they actually released some good movies this summer, we might have seen higher P2P usage then, too."

    Heh. Kinda reminds me of the old joke about N-Sync having the best anti-piracy protection ever.

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    "Derp de derp."
  10. But... by ari_j · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't trust a guy who writes Pascal-style comments to write a good letter to a corporation. (* Or can you? *)

    ;-)