Piracy crackdown spurs file-sharing shift
From the “Duh” department of journalism, Reuters whips up a little commentary on the latest CacheLogic report:
Traffic in the popular file-sharing network BitTorrent has fallen in the wake of a crackdown on piracy, but file sharers have merely shifted to another network, eDonkey, new data released on Monday showed.
Move along folks, nothing to see here. People like stealing music and movies, film at 11. I like how Reuters attempts to make eDonkey look hip and cool:
A study by the Cambridge-based Internet analysis firm CacheLogic found that eDonkey is now roughly on par with BitTorrent in the United States, China, Japan and Britain.
It is the dominant peer-to-peer file-sharing network in South Korea, which has the world’s highest percentage of high-speed Internet use, and also in Italy, Spain and Germany.
Anyone who is over the age of 16 and is not a certified geek has never used eDonkey. People feel like they need to wear a propeller beanie when they use it and while we here at BBB are perfectly comfortable with our geek status, we’d be very surprised if anyone who thought themselves “cool” would use it.
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