Filesharing Bandwidth usage - the truth ?

[reech]

interesting article about current filesharing bandwidth usage -
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/how-much-file-s.html

How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading?

Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the ISPs and backbone providers in the middle, and they aren't telling or sharing raw data).

One of the most recent reports on P2P traffic came from a traffic optimization firm called Ellacoya in June 2007. Their report said that http-based web traffic had overtaken peer-to-peer traffic on the net, thanks to streaming media sites like YouTube.

 

[Nerfherder]

It is interesting but think about it this way.

P2P is very finite, there is only so much media you can consume games, movies, music. Very soon you reach the situation where you either have most of what you want or run our of space. Things like uTube you download every time u watch it and it doesn't loose momentum like P2P does.

Look at it like this, an episode of Lost is let loose on the net. A week later the rest of the world has it and then it drops off the radar.
Then some one puts up a funny clip on uTube, 1000 people watch it in the first day. Then they link it on every forum and blog in the world, send it out to all of their mail contacts etc and a month later people are still watching it.

P2P is very focused and more for the technical user.... any old fool can click on a uTube video.

 

[Alchemist]

Saw a snip-it in the Business Report on Monday that said YouTube uses more bandwidth today than the entire internet did 2000