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Internet file sharing doubles from last year
Despite efforts from various agencies to curb peer-to-peer trading of movies, games, and music, a new study estimates that the amount of data traded has doubled from one year ago.
From Reuters, "Better broadband Internet connections and compression technologies mean larger files can be downloaded more rapidly, creating as big a piracy headache for movie studios as for music labels."
"Each day, the equivalent of roughly three billion songs or five million movies zips between computers, according to the study by Cambridge, England-based technology firm CacheLogic."
"It estimates Internet users around the globe freely exchange a staggering 10 petabytes -- or 10 million gigabytes -- of data, much of it in the form of copyright-protected songs, movies, software and video games."
Posted by Al on 07/13 at 10:20 AM
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