{"id":277331,"date":"2018-09-27T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=277331"},"modified":"2018-09-27T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:30:46","slug":"bittorrent-is-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/277331-bittorrent-is-making-a-comeback.html","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent is making a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While peer-to-peer file sharing has been declining thanks to the popularity of services such Netflix, TorrentFreak <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/bittorrent-traffic-is-not-dead-its-making-a-comeback-180926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a><\/strong> that BitTorrent traffic is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>Citing data from Sandvine, the report stated there is a clear upward trend in BitTorrent traffic in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that globally, file sharing makes up 3% of all download traffic and 22% of all upload traffic.\u00a0BitTorrent accounts for the vast majority (over 97%) of all upstream file sharing traffic.<\/p>\n<p>In EMEA, BitTorrent is 32% of all upstream traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that fragmentation of the subscription video-on-demand market is likely playing a significant role in the increase in torrent traffic around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In the US,\u00a0HBO has Game of Thrones, Netflix has House of Cards, Hulu has The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, and Amazon has Jack Ryan, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The market is similarly fragmented in South Africa, where Showmax has Game of Thrones, Netflix has originals like Stranger Things, and Amazon has American Gods.<\/p>\n<p>This can result in users pirating content.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/275031-we-dont-block-steam-or-torrents-on-our-free-wi-fi-starbucks.html\">We don&#8217;t block Steam or torrents on our free Wi-Fi \u2014 Starbucks<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TorrentFreak reports that BitTorrent traffic is on the rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3536,54099,33837],"class_list":["post-277331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bittorrent","tag-global-internet-phenomena","tag-sandvine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277379,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277331\/revisions\/277379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}