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Originally Posted by Fbone
I recently read that 23% of US bandwidth was used for "peer to peer" and about 50% used for streaming video [Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc].
I don't know what 23% means in actual numbers but that sounds like a huge number of people file sharing.
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Doesn't mean a bunch of people, just a bunch of bandwidth. If you have 10 Joe Regulars who only view web pages and check email, using maybe 5 gigs a month, and a Max Pirate who downloads 100 gigs of torrents, does it mean that you have 90% of the group being for piracy? No, just that much bandwidth. Most pirates use LOTS of bandwidth, way more than the average, so it skews things. And yeah, the people who I know who pirate use roughly 10-15 times the bandwidth that the non pirates I know, so it only surprises me that the nationwide figure isn't higher.