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May 14, 2014 07:18 pm GMT

The Slow Decline of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

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The days of peer-to-peer file sharing being somewhat of a mainstream online activity have long since come to an end.

Peer-to-peer file sharing services, once a seemingly ubiquitous tool for pirating content, now account for only about 8% of daily Internet traffic in North America, according to a new report from Sandvine based on data from its more than 250 Internet service provider customers

See also: BitTorrent and the Man Who Changed the Internet

By comparison, file sharing services accounted for 22% of total daily traffic in 2011 and nearly a third of traffic in 2008, according to Sandvine. Read more...

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