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P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge
From: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:43:57 -0500
------- Original message ------- From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic () well com> Sent: 15/4/'05, 5:37 Dear Dave, I think it remains appropriate to be skeptical about CacheLogic's claims that BitTorrrent or other P2P applications are taking up 60-80 percent of all Internet bandwidth. Why? Because their "studies" making such claims seem to be nothing more than press releases about their proprietary products that they hope to persu ade ISPs and others to buy. So far as I can tell, there has been no CacheLogic "study" in the sense that, say, a peer-reviewed journal would use the term. Nor does there seem to have been any independent verification of their claims about broadband usage. Nor is their proprietary technology itself available for inspe ction to determine whether their methodologies are sound. Lots of folks here will remember that it was only a decade ago that Marty Rimm's "study" of Internet pornography "proved" that the great majority of Internet us age, as measured by some metric or other, had to do with downloading porn. Rimm's phony statistics (there does not seem to actually have been any "study" as su ch) were reproduced uncritically in the press and elsewhere online. One lesson to be drawn from that experience is that we all should be skeptical about CacheL ogic's claims at least until both (a) their measuring technology is made available for public inspection and use and (b) their statistical claims are presented in a way that makes them independently testable. --Mike Godwin Legal Director Public Knowledge At 8:03 AM -0400 4/15/05, David Farber wrote:
------ Forwarded Message From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Reply-To: <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:34:57 -0700 To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge [Note: Traffic on the Darknet continues to grow. This article updates some of the stats from last July's study by CacheLogic. In that study the estimate was p2p traffic was 2/3 of global Net traffic. Now they're claiming its in the range of 60-80%. This is simply astounding! DLH] P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge By Joanna Glasner Story location: <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,67202,00.html>
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