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C|Net News notes that P2P sharing of video is rising:
[As] more and more consumers buy the Net pipes necessary to bring in and send out video files, [TV and movie producers] are reaching a crossroads their counterparts in music hit six years ago. About 67 percent of Americans who access the Internet at home now do so with a broadband connection, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. That's up from 31 percent five years ago. . . . .
[S]services such as eDonkey and BitTorrent . . . are having a big impact on the Net. More than 60 percent of Internet traffic is being taken up by peer-to-peer swaps, and about 60 percent of those swaps involve video content, according to recent data from network infrastructure company CacheLogic. Though it's difficult to estimate how much of that video is pirated, analysts say it would be naive to believe most or even a great portion of it is legal. On the glass-is-half-full side, if ISPs begin billing the BitTorrent senders for the use of bandwidth, this practice will dry up rapidly. In addition, as technology improves its capacity to identify copyrighted material, it will be increasingly possible to create barriers to illicit material while allowing legitimate services to operate in exchange for micropayments, automatically billed. And as the returns to creativity increase, we will sure enough get more of it.
posted by James DeLong @ 11:04 AM | Internet: P2P, Search Engines...
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