It's an important question - thanks for asking.
a) ipoque GmbH's Internet Study 2008/2009 notes that P2P generates the most traffic in all regions. "Peer-to-peer file sharing still generates by far the most traffic in all monitored regions - ranging from 43 percent in Northern Africa to 70 percent in Eastern Europe. The regional differences can probably be attributed to varying subscriber access bandwidth, availability of localized content, and cultural habits." http://www.ipoque.com/resources/internet-studies/internet-study-2008_200 9 b) Per an AP story about Sweden's new ipred law dated April 1, 2009: "Statistics from the Netnod Internet Exchange, an organization measuring Internet traffic, suggest that daily online activity dropped more than 40 percent after the law took effect on Wednesday. Henrik Ponten of the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau welcomed the plunge in Internet traffic as a sign that file-swappers are reducing their activity for fear of getting caught. "There's no other explanation for it," he said." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/ap_on_re_eu/eu_sweden_online_piracy_ 3 One might be tempted to argue that all this P2P traffic is legal file sharing of home movies, World of Warcraft updates, Linux downloads, or "sharing" of the Bible. Clearly Eric Schmidt and Sir Andrew don't believe that's the case. c) A recent study at Illinois State University in the US found 119k "likely infringements" in a one-month period (April 2007). What makes that number astounding is that there are fewer than 6k students living on campus. Jon Peha (Carnegie Mellon University), the FCC's new Chief Technologist, did the data analysis and you can find his paper ("Dimensions of Piracy") here: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~peha/dimensions_of_piracy.pdf The headlines are: 42% of students in residence halls use P2P; no evidence of legitimate P2P use; men more likely than women; 24k titles accessed; 119k "likely infringements". To me, the conclusions are inescapable: P2P constitutes the majority of network traffic and almost all P2P is "sharing" of copyrighted content without the copyright holders' permission. -----Original Message----- From: Lars Eggert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:28 AM To: DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal) Cc: Vijay K. Gurbani; alto Subject: Re: [alto] Adopting two I-Ds as WG documents Hi, Greg, On 2009-4-15, at 23:52, DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal) wrote: > This of course avoids the acceleration of > illicit content -- the root cause of network congestion today. I'm not aware of any study that shows that illicit content is the root cause of network congestion today. I've heard you say this multiple times in the past; would you please point me at the source of this information? Thanks, Lars
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