1 edit | Yes, the percentage of P2P has gone down. But that's only because, with developments such as the demise of The Pirate Bay, piracy has shifted to so-called "file archiving" services such as RapidShare and MegaUpload. (These services know that their primary use is piracy, but don't care.) And also because video streaming has increased overall bandwidth consumption.
All of these things reduce the amount of illicit P2P cost-shifting from content providers to ISPs, which is good. But piracy is still an issue, and so are exorbitant "special access" charges levied by the incumbent telephone carriers. The FCC's failure to address the latter issue is going to force ISPs to raise monthly charges, or start charging by the bit -- especially if "network neutrality" regulation, which would force them not to ration expensive bandwidth, is imposed. |
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| You are right on about this. Traffic has not been decreasing, but shifting. And P2P has also changed.
People want "instant" content. Most people just want to "consume" once and throw away. I am not surprised to see more demand for video. I had to increase the bandwidth at our location because of more demand, most of which is video traffic.
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