BitTorrent 35% of Internet Traffic?
According to Cachelogic, a British research firm, BitTorrent accounts for 35% of all internet traffic. It astounds me sites like SuperNova.org still remain in business with its blatant piracy of movies, TV shows, and games. I presume they are outside the legal boundaries of U.S. law.
Warning to all those who use these services, the movie industry is now about to sue individual file sharers. BitTorrent does NOT hide your IP address. In fact it makes it open for the whole internet to see.
Public P2P is definitely on the wane these days. Just for kicks I tried Kazaa yesterday, it loads tons of spyware on your computer and made my PC slow to a crawl + crash a bunch of times. And you get the lovely random pop-up advertisements. I uninstalled it pronto and ran Lavasoft Ad-aware to get rid of the spyware. It made me feel so dirty.
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