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BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-what-they-wanted-to-hear dept.

dingalig writes "It looks as though the MPAA's fight against The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites isn't going very well. Ars Technica reports that BitTorrent traffic is up by 24% since before the holidays. 'BitTorrent traffic spiked over the December holidays. After a peaking at almost 12.5 million downloaders on the 200 most popular files, traffic dropped at the beginning of January — about the time that school started up again. But one figure that will prove alarming to the content creation industry is that the numbers are higher now than they used to be. "The baseline has been elevated," notes [BigChampagne CEO Eric] Garland. "Not only did the spike happen, but the bar was raised."'"

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  1. Oblig. Office Space Reference by stupidflanders · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Theft is theft. Period. If you don't like it, change the law.

    PETER
    So when the subroutine compounds the interest, right, it uses all these extra decimals places that just get rounded off. So we just simplify the whole thing and we just round it down and drop the remainder into an account that we own.

    JOANNA
    So you're stealing.

    PETER
    Ah, no. No. You don't understand. It's, uh, very complicated. It's, uh, it's, it's aggregate so I'm talking about fractions of a cent that, uh, over time, they add up to a lot.

    JOANNA
    Ok. So you're gonna make a lot of money, right?

    PETER
    Yeah.

    JOANNA
    Ok. That's not yours?

    PETER
    Well, it, it becomes ours.

    JOANNA
    How's that not stealing?

    PETER
    I don't think, I don't think I'm explaining this very well.