P2P Is Only A Small Part Of Online Piracy
According to a Pew survey, 16% of people say they download music and video via P2P, while 17% say they've used P2P in the past. Given that file sharing activity continues to rise, there seems to be a fair number of people not fessing up. 20% get their downloads from email and IM, and 15% from someone else's MP3 player. Both of those sources also contain a lot of illegitimate content. P2P only accounts for 31% of illegal downloads.
Apple, consumer electronics makers, and software developers have a legitimate concern that the entertainment business will come gunning for them after RIAA and MPAA are done suing and regulating P2P. … Kids, make sure you hide those classic iPods before they're recalled. They'll be priceless a few years from now.
Marc Freedman
RazorPop, developer of TrustyFiles, the leading multiple network P2P file sharing software
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They are not looking to where their true losses are at. A lot of people are simply burning the music from CDs they purchased mixing songs and giving them to friends. At times they are giving DVDs with their entire collection of music on them. If they knew the real costs they would not be working about P2P
But p2p does account for 30% of all internet bandwidth used, its a huge strain :O
Rocky – I wouldn’t call them losses but otherwise agree. Of course sneakernet (making tapes or now CDs or DVDs) has been an issue for decades.
Seer – True, P2P does take up bandwidth. But so what? It creates no real strain. Networks are amply provisioned. In fact broadband providers sell high speed service with the promise of music and video, an indirect nod (wink, wink) to P2P.
Marc