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BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-didn't-want-to-until-you-told-me-I-couldn't dept.

MrSeb writes "In a twist that will surprise no one except the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, and other anti-piracy lobbies, the amount of BitTorrent traffic has stayed the same or increased in Europe following the blockade of The Pirate Bay in the UK, Netherlands, and other countries. This news comes from XS4All, one of the largest European ISPs, which has published a graph of the network traffic associated with the BitTorrent protocol — and sure enough, since the Dutch Pirate Bay blockade began in February 2012, traffic has stayed the same or increased slightly. There are probably a few reasons for this: a) The European blockades created a lot of publicity (and no publicity is bad publicity); b) TPB isn't the only torrent site out there, and many of its torrents are available elsewhere; and c) Internet denizens are a lot more savvy (proxies, VPNs, etc.) than the MPAA and co give them credit for."

2 of 272 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Blizzard distributes patches via Bittorrent by Serious+Sandwich · · Score: 1, Troll

    An equal hypothesis could be, everyone has stopped downloading files from the pirate bay and with all the free time they have now they are unable to watch movies, the are now committed WoW or D3 players, or whatever other games use Bittorrent as a patch delivery mechanism.

    This really sounds like you think sitting at computer is the only thing to do in the world.

    But yesterday I went out and there was lots of beautiful and cute girls and people spending time outside in the summer. Amazing, I know. But the best thing - and let me tell she was so cute - was one girl who sat down to draw what she saw when people walked past her. I smiled at her. Should had said hello. Amazing.

  2. Re:CUZ MOTHERFUCKERS WILL STEAL NO MATTER WHAT !! by znrt · · Score: 0, Troll

    so what?
    i download everything i want (which is not much, but is just what i happen to want).

    i will never, ever, buy another book, game, dvd, whatever. it's years already since i haven't, and i will not do it again until this retarded, obnoxious swindle and mass idiocy about IP is out of the picture. not a single dime.

    got it?
    now you may keep calling it stealing if you so wish. you can also suck my dick. enjoy :-)