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P2P Remains Dominant Protocol

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-the-data-crumbles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, a press release was issued by Ellacotya that suggested something quite startling — HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years overtaken P2P traffic. However a new article from Slyck disputes this, and contends that P2P remains the bandwidth heavyweight."

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  1. Protocol? by dreamchaser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here I thought P2P was a class of applications, you know, ones that communicate peer to peer.

    WTF. We can't even blame editors for this crap anymore, because they gave us the Firehose.

    1. Re:Protocol? by Nephrite · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't you know that P2P stands for "Protocol to Pirate"? Shame on you!

  2. So true by vivaoporto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot of P2P applications even uses http in one phase or another of its execution, what is the case of bittorrent clients communication with trackers, that is done over using http requests.

    What they might be implying is that the so called "legitimate" traffic (casual WWW surfing) is outpacing filesharing. Ironically, this growing is due the popularization of tools that allow users to share the files via www, tools like Youtube and Flickr (and pornotube, *cough*) that they would share via P2P applications like Kazaa, Napster or IMesh.

    Bottom line is: people don't care about the tools, but about the use they do to the tools. Nothing to see here, move along.