Piracy Nearly A Quarter Of Global Internet Traffic, Says Study | paidContent

Piracy Nearly A Quarter Of Global Internet Traffic, Says Study | paidContent

Of the 23.8 percent found to be copyright-infringing material, bittorrents led the way as the most plentiful source, accounting for nearly half that amount (11.4 percent). Coming in second was so-called “cyberlockers,” otherwise known as file-sharing sites like RapidShare (5.1 percent), followed by video-streaming sites i.e. Megavideo (1.4 percent) and finally, Usenet and other lesser utilized P2P sites (0.86 percent).