Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping
Found on Slashdot on Monday, 31 August 2009
A new report based on data from 100 US and European ISPs claims P2P traffic has dropped to around 20% of all Internet traffic.
'In fact, the P2P daily trend is pretty much completely inverted from daily traffic. In other words, P2P reaches its low at 4pm when web and overall Internet traffic approaches its peak ... trend is highly suggestive of either persistent congestion or, more likely, evidence of widespread provider manipulation of P2P traffic rates.'
Or that could be wrong. It should be a safe bet that sharing is not decreasing, just shifting. When the industry hailed the victory against Napster/Kazaa, it was nothing but hot air. Users moved simply away to other services; just like now.