Another study here for you all to browse over.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=9142It would be a mistake to think that because a particular technology can be used to distribute illegal copies therefore you should just run away from it." said "father of the internet" Vint Cerf.
"It's only a matter of time before Hollywood accepts that there is no 'magic bullet' to combat peer-to-peer piracy and then starts to embrace it." comments Andrew Parker, vice-president of Forrester Research.
Dan Glickman, President and CEO of the MPAA admits, "Peer-to-peer technology is here to stay... What's more, the film industry will have to come up with a 'reasonable-cost', hassle-free way for people to download movies legally for it to continue to prosper."
The question remains, however, what are people sharing on P2P lately and where?
CacheLogic observed a "dominance of eDonkey and BitTorrent usage" and a "high level of audio files being exchanged on the Gnutella network."
The top 3 audio formats that are weighted by volume of traffic generated on each network are .OGG at 12.3%, "Microsoft audio files" at 22.81% and MP3's at a massive 64.89%. Despite these numbers, this represents 11.35% of the total P2P traffic.
CacheLogic observed a "relatively high level of OGG files - almost exclusively found on the BitTorrent network - particularly in Asia.
Meanwhile the top three video formats are "Realtime Media" at 8.84%, MPEG's at 15.21% and "Microsoft Video Files" at 75.95%. Video files soak up 61.44% of total P2P traffic on each network.
Theres a few more interesting statistics to look at but none of them show any drop in users for P2P
