You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created

Re:You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Inte... by joeblau on Friday December 12, 2014 @01:44PM (#8741908)

Does anyone know what percentage of the Internet the torrent protocol is responsible for using?

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Re:You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Inte... by xtracto on Friday December 12, 2014 @01:50PM (#8741945)

3.35% according to [this webpage]( http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-re...( cited by [BitTorrent wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent)

Impressive how it went from being the 35% of traffic in 2004.

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Re:You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Inte... by jstanek on Friday December 12, 2014 @10:45PM (#8744049)

That's also partly due to Netflix' extreme web market share: They account for ~31% of all global aggregate internet usage, and combined with Youtube, the major video streamers account for ~43% of all global aggregate internet usage. That's probably because their business models necessitate a lot of traffic, since content needs to be re-downloaded on each viewing/listening.

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Re:You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Inte... by kalleboo on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:39AM (#8744725)

Well according to xtracto's link, Netflix is only 0.85% (and YouTube is 5.7%), so I don't think numbers can be compared across sources - the methods of measuring traffic seem to vary wildly.

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