So says UK-based P2P measuring firm CacheLogic…
Reuters: Traffic in the popular file-sharing network BitTorrent has fallen in the wake of a crackdown on piracy, but file sharers have merely shifted to another network, eDonkey, new data released on Monday showed.
Last year, BitTorrent was consuming up to a third of the Internet’s total bandwidth as users traded huge movie and television files. Hollywood struck back with a slew of lawsuits to shut down Web sites that provided “tracker” links, which tell the network where to look for files.
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