Movie-swapping up; Kazaa down

[Lee]

Online movie trading is skyrocketing, but onetime leader Kazaa is tumbling in use, according to a new worldwide survey of file-swapping traffic from network management company CacheLogic.

One of the most detailed examinations to date of actual peer-to-peer traffic, the CacheLogic survey used network-monitoring tools installed inside top Internet service providers (ISPs) to capture data packets and identify whether they had been sent by programs such as Kazaa or Gnutella.

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Saw it firstly at Neo Site though!

 

[muzikool]

I would assume that BitTorrent has taken up the slack that Kazaa has left.

 

[Lee]

Over six months of surveying, the British company found that Kazaa use had slipped far behind rival BitTorrent, which accounted for 53 percent of actual peer-to-peer network traffic. It found also that overall traffic has not been falling, as some have suggested. By June, an average of 8 million users were online at any given time, sharing a petabyte (10 million gigabytes) of data.

You are right!

 

[Petros]

They (as in I don't know how) need to make a new Bittorrent system that makes peers do more of the tracking, but have to constantly report their tracking stats and get instructions from a "master tracker". Then there could be more peer downloads overall. Just a thought...

 

[muzikool]

Hehehe, I didn't read past the first paragraph.

 

[vern]

Nobody goes to Kazaa for movies. It's only use is porn porn porn porn! heh.

 

[Lee]

Nobody goes to Kazaa for movies. It's only use is porn porn porn porn! heh.

mmmm Interesting Do they have lots of adult lesbian porn? (Not that I would look, just interested that is all).