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Re: I'm tired of ISPs implying usage = pirate said by psx_defector:But, oh, you only get "Linux ISOs" and "patches" that way right? Don't pretend like pirates are not a large part of the problem. Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. It must have been all those Linux distros that were no longer downloaded. 
Couldn't have been a 33% drop because of pirates downloading less.{/sarcasm}
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 IgnitePremium,VIP
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UK | said by fAcEtIOUs:Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. It must have been all those Linux distros that were no longer downloaded. Couldn't have been a 33% drop because of pirates downloading less.{/sarcasm} Most of that traffic drop was actually upstream. Socialist Sweden is nice like that, good upstreams on the socialist symmetrical fibre to the home services delivered over the socialist fibre belonging to the socialised local utilities. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by psx_defector:But, oh, you only get "Linux ISOs" and "patches" that way right? Don't pretend like pirates are not a large part of the problem. Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. It must have been all those Linux distros that were no longer downloaded. Couldn't have been a 33% drop because of pirates downloading less.{/sarcasm} Like Ignite said, it was actually on the upstream side.
I love how thieves, I mean Linux ISO downloaders, say they are DOWNLOADING Linux ISOs or Microsoft patches or watching videos (or insert latest craze) but fail utterly at logic when they post their monthly stats of 250GB uploaded and 300GB downloaded. Aside from illegal content (read: music, movies, and programs/games) there isn't enough legal content for someone to upload 250GB a month, consistently.
In the meantime, join a popular torrent swarm, say CentOS or Ubuntu. There are never more than a few hundred people in there. See the screenshot I posted ... and CentOS 5.3 was released pretty recently. |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. Uh, but they switched to proxy and anonymous downloading, so it was just a brief dip while they reconfig'd.
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| said by KrK:said by fAcEtIOUs:Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. Uh, but they switched to proxy and anonymous downloading, so it was just a brief dip while they reconfig'd. But it proved the point that much of broadband traffic is based on illegal piracy.
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
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Albany, CA | said by fAcEtIOUs:said by KrK:said by fAcEtIOUs:Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. Uh, but they switched to proxy and anonymous downloading, so it was just a brief dip while they reconfig'd. But it proved the point that much of broadband traffic is based on illegal piracy. Well, no.
Folks in Sweden saw a new law come into effect and subsequently downloaded less. This 33% reduction in traffic, while likely caused by the harsher anti-piracy law could conceivably be attributed not only to "pirates" but to "regular law abiding folks" unsure about what constitutes "illegal downloading" and may have stopped downloading many legitimate files "just to be safe".
Now, let's say for the sake of argument that the 33% reduction in traffic was completely composed of "illegal piracy" (and I am highly skeptical of this). Then 33% is much less than the 80% that has been thrown around in the past by many folks on this forum and others.
Thus, this 33% reduction in traffic has actually proven that the "anti-piracy" shills and idiots overstated the internet traffic attributed to "piracy" by 246%! |
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