P2P Growth Slowing ?

[GhostShip]

A bold claim, lets see the facts 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080930-p2p-growth-slowing-as-infringement-goes-deeper-undercover.html

deep packet inspection (DPI) provider Ipoque has released the first preliminary results from its 2008 Internet traffic study, and they confirm what we've known for some time: P2P traffic is shrinking as a percentage of total Internet traffic. Good news for TV and movie studios? Possibly, but the use of direct download links (DDL) is soaring

DDL now accounts for up to 30 percent of all traffic from "standard protocols" like HTTP and SMTP. Ipoque claims that the most popular DDL host, RapidShare, alone "generates half of the DDL traffic and therefore up to 5 percent of all web traffic in some regions

I,m not convinced on the basis of one report that this is the case but I,m sure we can see that downloaders are diversifying their attainment methods to fit whatever medium delivers the files they seek.

The main flaw with this report is simply that sites like rapidshare that get a hefty mention here are based in the area where the study was undertaken and this alone would obviously skew the traffic in its favour.

[White Stripes]

* Silver Stripes smells BS

if "DPI" really worked there wouldnt -be- any p2p

[Cobra]

Maybe this is the RIAA's new strategy. "P2P sharing is declining. It is only a matter of time before it is gone forever. You might as well just stop doing it right now before you have no one to share with."