p2pnet - rss feed: P2p outstrips them all!
p2p news / p2pnet:- A new study confirms what p2p users have known since Day One.
Peer-to-peer is here to stay.
In fact, says British ISP network service CacheLogic, p2p not only represented 60% of Net traffic at the end of 2004, it “outstrips every other communication and distribution protocol and is still growing”.
And p2p and broadband are mutually compatible forces, each driving the uptake of the other.
Virtually repeating an earlier report, CacheLogic says the trend away BitTorrent and towards eDonkey continues. Gnutella and FastTrack are dominated by small files while eDonkey and BitTorrent have the lion’s share of large (ie, movie) files.
Interestingly, it singles out eXeem, a “fully decentralised” version of BT which was “expected to rocket in popularity” but which today accounts for less than 1% of the BitTorrent traffic.
Why? This could have been due to the authors’ decision “to include spyware technology at launch”.
Nor, says CacheLogic, did the Grokster vs MGM decision result in a rapid decline in p2p usage.
Asia is still predominantly BitTorrent with the “notable exception of South Korea, which has wholeheartedly embraced eDonkey,” says the report, attributing this to the widespread use of Pruna, a localized version of eDonkey.
Gnutella was “once seen as dead” and so therefore may be off the entertainment cartel radar, opines CacheLogic, “proof that legal pressure from industry groups results in the mass migration of file sharers to an alternative network, whether old or new.”
And the company makes the obvious observation that “this cat and mouse game will continue”.
According to CacheLogic, the top three audio formats on each network are OGG (12.3%), Microsoft audio files (22.81%) and mp3’s, easily out-shining the first two formats at 64.89%.
The top three video formats were Realtime Media (8.84%), mpegs (15.21%) and Microsoft video files (75.95%).
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earlier report - eDonkey up, BiTorrent down, August 29, 2005
September 17th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
Nice article Jon!
September 17th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
I tend to use bittorrent for full albums, new movie releases, games, applications, new tv series and linux distros.
EDonkey/Kad/Fast Track are good for older movies, music singles, older tv series.
I find myself using EDonkey/Kad/Fast Track on more of a day to day basis. But with torrents, i only use when something good comes out (which tends to be new). Lately, it’s all rubbish on the cinema, so i’m not using torrents much.
So it’s easy to see why there are more concurrent users on EDonkey etc than torrents. However, if you measured the spike in bandwidth usage on torrents when an anticipated new release comes out, you would find it probably beats EDonkey during that period.