44% of US traffic is P2P
An anti p2p throttling company has today released statistics on quite how much of US internet traffic is taken by P2P; and it's a lot! Supposedly it accounts for 44%; almost HALF of all internet u…
Archive for the 'Commentary' Category
30 June
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20 June
0Comments Music Downloading – should it be free?
A semi-interesting article: Music Downloading – Now and in the Future offers somewhat of a simplistic remedy to the pirating of music on the Internet. They offer up that musicians should give their m…
25 April
0Comments GTA IV leaked….
The highly awaited Grand Theft Audo 4 has been leaked onto bittorrent from oldschool sceners 101, who have been out of the "warez" scene for years, but made a return for one of the biggest…
22 February
0Comments Digital Music to wipe the floor with CDs soon?
A new analyst's report (oh how we do love them), has claimed that by 2012 digital music sales will have surpassed CD sales. This distresses me in a number of ways, firstly because, I personally …
28 January
0Comments Digital Music Sales up 40%
The IFPI has just released it's report for music sales through 2007, and it is showing massive gains for the sales of digital music, up a massive 40% on the last year. Countries like the US are…
08 January
0Comments TVLinks to make a comeback?
After the copyright cronies shut down TVLinks, a site that purely linked to material hosted on other servers, such as DivX's Stage6, many people were left lost, struggling to find a replacement …
22 December
0Comments Japan likes P2P too, unsuprisingly.
In yet another one of those rather predictable surveys about P2P, it has been revealed to everyone that, Japan, a modern, technology filled country, has embraced sharing with open arms.
As this sur…
06 September
0Comments Don’t Blame P2P for the Demise of the CD
The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason …
04 September
0Comments "This is a fight about money, not about morality"
The recording industry has been focusing its PR the past several months on co-opting schools in its fight against copyright infringement by college students. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann…
20 August
0Comments Music’s Swan Dive: Self-Inflicted Wounds
Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f…