100 P2P Users Upload 75% of Content

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:18AM from the they-must-be-very-busy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers say that about 100 people (called pirates in the article) are responsible for 75 percent of all downloading on BitTorrent (and the same group does 66 percent of all uploading), and says that the way to shut down the p2p network is simply to disincentive that relatively small number of people. The other large group identified in the study were people (such as from copyright enforcement agencies) who uploaded fake content to frustrate other users. No suggestions were made about how to prevent people from uploading fake content — but it was suggested that the first group could have their ad revenue cut or could be heavily fined."

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Re:Little Confused by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-26 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

It's Slashdot's new automatic tl;dr feature. The plan is to keep cranking down the character limit until Slashdot resembles a threaded Twitter. Then it really will be time to leave.
Re:Little Confused by StikyPad · 2011-01-26 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

You were starting to ramble, so we

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Re:eh, ever heard of 'the scene'? by kimvette · 2011-01-26 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

It's utterly ridiculous to think you will stop pirating by attacking the lowest part of the food chain.
Why not? It worked for the war on drugs.
Oh wait. . .

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Re:Little Confused by ZigiSamblak · 2011-01-26 15:02 · Score: 4, Funny

This new slashdot sure sucks, even the jokes are taken over by empty white space.