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Originally Posted by Hellmark
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.
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These aren't monthly stats but peak time stats. Simultaneous usage.
The 50% video and the 23% file sharing group are both doing the same thing. Watching or downloading video/music. One lawfully the other perhaps unlawfully. We know there are more than 23 million Netflix users, 1 million Hulu subscribers plus many others on Youtube, Verizon, Comcast, Apple, BB. And there is a limit on how much an individual can download per second usually determined by your ISP and various network backbones. The general web users and emailers are separated in the third group.