A Princeton undergrad and his advising professor recently published the results of their survey on BitTorrent file sharing. ArsTechnica claims the majority of files being shared over BitTorrent are movies and music that are likely being shared illegally, and the data from Sauhard Sahi indeed seems to confirm that. It's too bad we can't find more productive uses for such excellent P2P network technology than just (mostly) pirating stuff.
→ More - Census of Files Available via BitTorrent
→ More - Census of Files Available via BitTorrent
It may be a stupid question but if a TV program, for instance, has been broadcast over the airwaves/satellites/cables and legally recorded via my DVR, etc. how is downloading the same content via the Internet to a hard drive for private viewing later illegal? Either way it is simply time-shifting, which the Betamax ruling said was legal.
Don’t be silly P2P is the worst bandwidth hogging piece-of-$^!# set of technologies ever. Of course it is only for illegal stuff, anything legal will use a real way of connecting! Think of it this way, what kind of dumb-@$$ puts his content servers at the end of the slowest connections on the planet, instead of on the internet backbone… HELLO, Earth to Brahm– get a clue!