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My startup monitors bittorrent traffic globally. 80,000 data points a second. I have been monitoring bittorrent traffic for 9 months, 24 hours a day, 7 days a
by throwaway1119 11y ago
My startup monitors bittorrent traffic globally. 80,000 data points a second.
I have been monitoring bittorrent traffic for 9 months, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
As of this second, there are 9,151,043 torrents in the system.
Out of the 9,151,043 torrents, 9,056,412 are pirated copies of either Software, Games, Music, Movies or TV. 98.9%
- mikeash 11y agoHow do the numbers look if you compare data transferred rather than just torrent count? Seems like that would be a better measure. I'd expect that to actually skew even more towards pirating, though.
- mirimir 11y agoWhat's the breakout on a throughput basis? I'm maybe a little surprised that Linux ISOs account for so little. But then, I'm obviously out of touch.
- larrik 11y agoI guess my question becomes, does the articles description of 'bittorrent' include all p2p file sharing? I feel like a ton of video games and even software like Linux use p2p for downloads and patching. Your answer was the sort of thing I was hoping for, although % of torrents may not be an accurate representation of share of traffic. Of course, it could very well be.
- Bedon292 11y agoDoes that take into account private trackers? And I too would like to know more about the actual amounts download.