Two thirds of ISP traffic is P2P DVD movies

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[The growth of P2P traffic from music to DVD movies video files comes at no
surprise.  Many companies are developing products that they claim will block
or limit this traffic - but I suspect ultimately they will lose.  It is
constant war of escalation where a community of millions of clever and
creative software users  are developing new tools to outsmart the latest P2P
blocking tools.  The latest "darknets" and "space" based applications which
use holographic like techniques to store and distribute data across multiple
servers are good examples of these developments. Some excerpts from the
original article - BSA]


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Today's focus:  ISPs deluged by peer-to-peer traffic, P-Cube 
reports

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

As much as two-thirds of the traffic that ISPs carry today is 
from peer-to-peer Web sites, and most of that traffic is caused 
by users downloading massive DVD files.

That's the assessment of ISP traffic patterns offered by Yuval 
Shahar, CEO of P-Cube. P-Cube is a venture-funded start-up that 
sells network devices to help ISPs throttle back peer-to-peer 
traffic.

Shahar says peer-to-peer traffic is shifting from users swapping 
small MP-3 music files to users simultaneously downloading 
multiple movies. "Napster was about swapping MP-3 files. Now it's mostly DVD

movies, and the typical file is over 700M-byte. Users will set 
up 10 or 20 of those downloads in the background," Shahar says.

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