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New P2P Study Says that 20% of Europeans are File-Sharers
Also claims that P2P's traffic dominates a low of 49% of all internet traffic in the Middle-East to as much as 84% in Eastern Europe, with this figure rising to a staggering 95% at night.
Ipoque, a provider of solutions for Internet traffic management, analyzed Internet traffic in five regions of the world between August and September 2007. While the emphasis of last year's ipoque survey was on P2P file sharing, this study also includes data about Internet telephony (VoIP), Skype, video streaming, instant messaging (IM), file hosting and encrypted P2P protocols. Three petabytes of anonymous data representing over one million users in Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany, the Middle East and Southern Europe have been analyzed. The results for these different regions vary considerably.
In general terms this P2P study confirmed file-sharing's continued dominance of all Internet traffic. Its share varies from between 49% in the Middle East to 84% in Eastern Europe. At night this percentage rises to an amazing 95%!
Additionally, the survey found that every fifth person connected to the Internet uses file-sharing software of some sort. BitTorrent is the most popular P2P protocol by far except in Southern Europe where Donkey still dominates. 57% of all P2P traffic. Also notable is the high amount of DirectConnect traffic in Eastern Europe (29%) and Gnutella traffic in Australia (9%). In Australia, the differing eDonkey and BitTorrent traffic volumes are particularly extreme with only 14% eDonkey and as much as 73% BitTorrent.
For the first time, ipoque even covered encrypted P2P protocols as well, discovering that about 20% of all BitTorrent and eDonkey traffic are currently encrypted.
As for content being shared, the study claims that BitTorrent is used mainly for downloading video files, accounting for some 62% of its total traffic in Southern Europe and 79% in Germany. Southern Europe has a particularly high amount of software traffic – 26% compared to 6% in Germany and the Middle East. German BitTorrent users also download more porn (13%) than the other regions (2% and 5%).
For the most part I don't think this latest ipoque study contains any real new or groundbreaking revelations, but it is interesting to read that 49% of the people in the Middle-East are file-sharers. It just goes to show that we oftentimes have more in common with our fellow man then we realize.
29.11.2007 - source: zeropaid.com
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