[IP] P2P Fuels Global Bandwidth Binge
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From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@xxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:34:57 -0700
>To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>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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