P2p population almost doubled
p2pnet.net News Feature:- A constantly recurring (and entirely disingenuous) message from Big Music cartel members EMI (Britain), UMI (France), Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) and Warner (US) is that their sue `em all lawsuits and relentless victimization the men, women and children who share with each other online are having an effect.
File sharing is diminishing, they say. More and more people are turning to the corporate music sites, they say.
However, the exact opposite is true, as many studies and reports demonstrate.
Far from driving people into buying music industry `product,` the anti-p2p campaigns are channeling online music lovers increasingly to the p2p networks.
Now Slyck has produced a report to re-confirm what`s been obvious for years to everyone except the major print and electronic press outlets:
P2p is here to stay.
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Interest in File-Sharing at All Time High
Tom Mennecke – Slyck
Slyck.com has been tracking the population of the largest P2P networks since we opened in 2000. We gather the statistics from the network clients, and verify them through a third party. For example, for FastTrack we use KCeasy to verify the statistics displayed by Kazaa Media Desktop. Although it is impossible for a crawler to count every user on a network, it does give an accurate representation to the network’s trend over time.
In March of 2005, Slyck compiled our collected data. Starting with January of 2003, the respective statistics for eDonkey2000, DirectConnect, FastTrack, Gnutella and Overnet were averaged per month. Unfortunately there is no accurate way to gauge BitTorrent`s population (other than bandwidth consumption), therefore it is excluded. We then released our “Stats Expanded” section, which graphically depicted the growth or decline of these five networks.
These stats are displayed on a network-by-network basis. While they are able to demonstrate the growth of decline of an individual network, they do not compare or evaluate the trends of the P2P community as a whole.
Acting independently, Slyck member Anders Edström Frejman, also a PhD. candidate of Media Technology in the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, used Slyck’s data and compiled a comparison graph depicting the trend of these major P2P networks. The results are displayed below:
As a comparison graph, it is interesting to note as FastTrack becomes narrower, eDonkey2000 and Gnutella both become considerably wider. Despite the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) campaign to rid the Internet eDonkey2000 indexing sites in December, the growth of this network appears to continue unabated.
Another demonstration of Slyck’s statistics is in the total population of the P2P community. Once again compiling the average number of users per month, we are able to see the general trend over the last two years. Although the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA have sued well over 10,000 indivuals, it appears this novelty has worn off as the P2P population has almost doubled since January 2003. The results are displayed below:
It is important to note these statistics do not include other important players in the file sharing world, such as BitTorrent, WinMX, SoulSeek, the Ares/Warez P2P network, the Manolito P2P network, Sharaza, FileTopia or OpenFT. While our stats dictate there is close to 9 million users on file-sharing networks at any given time, the addition of these other networks most likely pushes this number well over 10 million.
Although the mainstream media tends to report there is a decline in P2P and file-sharing usage, it appears this is largely incorrect. Quite the contrary, the interest in P2P and file-sharing networks appears to be at an all time high, with no end in sight.
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April 27th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
This is the usual drumbeat by the majors to try and sell cause and effect. The idea that they have sued x amount and that the use of p2ps is over. It is the norm to use the major media outlets to stuff their idea of what the message should be while at the same time denying any counter move by opposing ideas that would stated different. It is why you are hearing of this once again on the internet, the one place they don’t dominate and control but wish to.
They are their own worse enemy when it comes to this. With every toot of the horn, with every lawsuit presented they not only advertise the existance of such programs but name them and then in indirect terms tell you everyone is doing it. One of the strongest forms of influance when trying to advertise is the bandwagon idea. “Everyone is doing it, shouldn’t you?”, and by this the idea is left to the reader that they are missing out. If they didn’t know of it before, this educational idea has once again backfired in their faces, telling internet users they too can be part of a new and growing trend. The figures show that they are indeed reaching their audience with the unintended message.
April 28th, 2005 at 4:49 am
It’s clear that Mr. Mennecke has not done his due diligence and has not researched all of the facts. Instead of providing real evidence, Mr. Mennecke has provided a mere estimate, which is not only misleading, but also completely inaccurate. Itâs a shame that these so called media news Websites invent these statistics and publish them. Itâs also a shame that both Slyck.com and P2pnet.net readers are completely oblivious and unbelievably ignorant. They are being spoon-fed lies by people passing themselves off as journalists.
Mr. Newton, please stop this charade. Your crusade against the recording industry is not only shameful, but also an embarrassment. Perhaps Mr. Mennecke can be excused for his incompetence, but you have access to Big Champagneâs statistics and should know better than to post this drivel on your Website and pass it off as news.
The facts are that file sharers are being sent to jail for sharing copyrighted material. The facts are that file sharers are finally being persecuted and punished. A thief is a thief and you Mr. Newton are worse than a thief. You are a scoundrel. Encouraging people (some of your readers are most likely under 16) to carry out a crime by engaging in unlawful file sharing should be made against the law and if we have our way, one day it will be against the law. You have an opportunity to embrace the constructive things peer-to-peer brings to the table but instead you cling to the old, illegal peer-to-peer mentality. There are now several legal peer-to-peer networks but I have yet to read a story about them on your site, Mr. Newton. Why is that?
Simon
April 28th, 2005 at 4:51 am
I couldn’t resist…hehe
April 28th, 2005 at 5:37 am
Hey Drake you Riaa troll show us where one filesharer has been JAILED for using p2p for filesharing!!!!!!!!!
April 28th, 2005 at 6:53 am
I believe he was only kidding with that rant. =)
April 28th, 2005 at 10:35 am
Hey Drake you Riaa troll show us where one filesharer has been JAILED for using p2p for filesharing!!!!!!!!!
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yeah, i was surprised, too. he fooled me at first until i saw his next message.
well, here’s one that’s going to jail. http://p2pnet.net/story/4667
ok, it’s in a communist country, but…looks like trouble to me.
April 28th, 2005 at 10:37 am
“Sharaza”?
Actually, Shareaza uses eDonkey2000 and Gnutella so saying the statistics don’t include Shareaza are slightly wrong.
It probably should say that the statistics don’t include Gnutella2 which is probably only because mention of it on some parts of the internet causes terrible wars. Probably why Slyck won’t add the statistics (which there aren’t any of now anyway).
- Jim
April 28th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
It was a bad joke…sorry, it was late and I was bored. :/
I was going to sign off as “Cary Sherman” and wait until there were a few replies before I told everyone it was me but then I reconsidered.
No harm intended…just a silly, dumb joke. I’m not an RIAA troll.
April 28th, 2005 at 3:08 pm
I’d also like to know what the average userbase of Gnutella 2 is. I think the stats are posted somewhere but I can’t remember where.
April 28th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
which one is the most popular that u all know of, and which one is highest if it was ranked as the next target of RIAA AND MPAA.
April 28th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
which one is the most popular that u all know of, and which one is highest if it was ranked as the next target of RIAA AND MPAA.
April 30th, 2005 at 1:35 pm
The stats were available at http://crawler.instantnetworks.net/ but the crawler had to be taken offline due to the server not being able to cope with the load. It may well come back one day.
There was also someone else who wrote a crawler but its not hosted anywhere and is does not provide live stats as the Aenea crawler did.
May 4th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
lol simon. No problems with files sharing here in canada. “scoundrel. Lmfao