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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. Re:Should ISP's shut down P2P filesharing? by Musteval · · Score: 0, Redundant

    P2P software designer: "Oh no! We can't use port 9256 any more! Whatever shall we do?"
    *changes one line of code*
    LATER:
    P2P software designer: "Oh no! We can't use port 1839 any more! Whatever shall we do?"
    *changes one line of code*
    LATER:
    P2P software designer: "Oh no! We can't use port 6291 any more! Whatever shall we do?"
    *changes one line of code*
    LATER:
    P2P software designer: "Oh no! We can't use port 7923 any more! Whatever shall we do?"
    *changes one line of code*
    LATER:
    P2P software designer: "Oh no! We can't use port 2963 any more! Whatever shall we do?"
    *changes one line of code*
    LATER:
    P2P software designer: "Oh well, guess I'll just use port 80. Or port 3128. Or whatever."
    *changes one line of code*

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    Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.