24 June 2008 10:40 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
Peer-to-peer technology, the file-sharing applications like BitTorrent that are generally associated with online music and movie piracy, account for 44 percent of all bandwidth used in North America, according to Sandvine, a vendor of bandwidth-management systems and reported by the online Multichannel News today (Tuesday). The website observed that Comcast, the cable company that is known to be seeking ways to limit the use of peer-to-peer technology, is a Sandvine client. The same study indicated that 14.8 percent of bandwidth used is consumed by streaming technologies, which also primarily deliver movies and TV shows to users, albeit mostly legitimately. Web browsing accounts for 27.3 percent of all bandwidth consumed, the study said.
