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P2P becoming smaller fraction of Internet traffic

• kierank 17y ago
  That graph is somewhat misleading. P2P clients use randomised port numbers now. By contrast, P2P downloads arrive in random chunks, making it hard to know when a download will finish — which is when it’s actually possible to start watching anything downloaded. When software appears like that chinese football streaming software with "click and watch p2p", then there will be some serious headaches in the movie/tv industry. Hopefully, hulu and the likes will have taken up that space by then.
• jws 17y ago
  Pretty graphics says ~0.5% for P2P. Tiny paragraph in the middle says 18%. The author deceives. The graphic may accurately show that three of the ports popular with P2P programs are getting less use. These are a meaninglessly tiny portion of the total P2P level. The result is a graph showing a factor of 5 drop for what is probably a factor of 2 drop in P2P's share of internet traffic.
  • ismarc 17y ago
    Forget to read the rest of the paragraph? "In fact, according to its sensors, peer-to-peer traffic still accounts for about 18 percent of all traffic. (That’s by looking at packets — by protocol, P2P fell to less than one percent of traffic, but file sharing applications mask themselves in order to evade technical blocks.)" The graph is useless, but what is presented is that the traffic dropped from 40% (per-packet detection) of internet traffic to 18% (per-packet detection) of internet traffic. This actually highlights the fact that advancing techniques of masking traffic are either working exceedingly well or are not of importance with regards to the use of P2P software.