14 DAY TRIAL // BitTorrent is still the most popular Internet protocol and especially in Germany where it owns an impressive percentage of users. According to Ipoque, the peer-to-peer network traffic represents 30 percent of the total Internet traffic recorded every day and 70 percent of the night traffic. BitTorrent is the most popular protocol with 53.13 percent while eDonkey comes on the second place with 43.09 percent. The research conducted by the same company revealed that no less than 71.13 percent of the entire BitTorrent traffic concerns video content while 20.74 percent transfers software solutions.
What's most interesting is that most of the users connected on the BitTorrent protocol share movies (21.24 percent), 15.04 percent of them share porn clips while 22.30 percent are focused on music files.
"The Ipoque survey proves the continuing popularity of Internet file sharing. Despite the many past campaigns by copyright holders, P2P usage has even grown. With BitTorrent, a file sharing technology has been established that allows for virtually unlimited distribution of large media content. Thus, Ipoque predicts a growing burden of the German Internet by P2P usage for the near future," it is mentioned in the analysis.
It's well known the fact that more and more users are attracted by the BitTorrent protocol because it represents the fastest and the easiest way to transfer files using a peer-to-peer environment. However, it seems like in some regions of the world, BitTorrent is less popular than other solutions. For example, the folks from Ipoque sustain that in the Baltic countries DirectConnect has no less than 30 percent of the peer-to-peer traffic.
"Preliminary results show P2P traffic still ranging between 50% up to 90% of all Internet traffic. The 2006 survey saw BitTorrent slowly surpassing eDonkey as the most popular P2P network. This trend has continued. BitTorrent has become the globally dominating P2P protocol with a share of 50-75% of all P2P traffic. eDonkey exhibits a regionally varying popularity with shares between 5-50% of all P2P. In certain regions, other protocols have gained a significant importance."