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Before shutdown, Megaupload ate up more corporate bandwidth than Dropbox

• Tim-Boss 15y ago
  This article feels like the author is pushing a "megaupload was bad" agenda... They were paying for their bandwidth, along with all their users (legitimate or otherwise!), so what's the issue?
  • Tim-Boss 15y ago
    "The internet is a series of tubes..."
• LogicX 15y ago
  Very subtle presentation that MegaUpload accounts for .0019% of corporate bandwidth usage (20.4GB of 10.9 Petabytes). Instead they prominently throw around the MegaUpload traffic was on 57% of corporate networks -- whoopee! Pick any random website and I'm sure given enough time you could find a similarly high number of 'usage' across corporate networks - at approximately 4 Million users traffic being analyzed, how difficult is it for random web browsing to come across an ad, errant search result click, etc. for any particular domain name?
• error54 15y ago
  It really is a biased article over a trivial amount of bandwidth. I'd like to see the percentages for Facebook or YouTube from corporate addresses. I'm certain that they're astronomically higher yet I don't see anyone making a fuss over it.
• lorax 15y ago
  "BitTorrent is also quite popular in the workplace, and some people are even installing Tor clients on their work machines to conceal details of their Internet usage, the study found." Some writers don't do their homework. Confusing bittorrent and Tor gives it away.