Filesharing Around The Globe

Written by Ernesto on April 15, 2006 

Different countries, different p2p preferences. Singapore has the highest percentage of BitTorrent users, the US has the most Gnutella fans, and South Korea is totally hooked on eDonkey.

Cachelogic studies p2p trends and traffic, the following data were presented at a Creative Commons P2P-TV workshop by David Ferguson.

(link to the powerpoint presentation)

Country P2P Preferences

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What do people share?

So what do people share?

61,4 percent video
11,3 percent audio
27,2 percent is games/software/etc.

Note that in general video files are larger on average, so people don’t download more video’s, it just generates more traffic.

The average filesize of shared files is 1 gigabyte

p2p traffic formats

What about the Traffic?

As you can see, by the end of 2002 (when BitTiorrent was created ;) ) P2P became responsible for more than 50% of all the traffic on the net.

traffic trend

And p2p traffic continued to grow:

In 2004 1 CacheLogic-server registered 3 million IP-addresses in 30 days
In 2006 1 CacheLogic-server registered 3 million IP-addresses in 8 days

This indicated that the users of p2p networks increased almost 400%

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12 Responses

1 Apr 15, 2006 at 16:34 by t d

wow, didnt expect that

2 Apr 15, 2006 at 17:49 by Steffen

I didn’t know Norway was in second place in bittorrent usage.

3 Apr 15, 2006 at 20:27 by SirDude

i like what i see :)

4 Apr 16, 2006 at 10:05 by BIG_BOSS

IS THE BEST

5 Apr 16, 2006 at 10:46 by winson

That’s what the trend is all about.

6 Apr 17, 2006 at 09:06 by Required

2002 is the P2P year not only because BT was born but also might be because web downloads started to be prosecuted by pseudo-law agents

7 Apr 17, 2006 at 20:52 by sergio

long live bittorrent !!!!!! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

8 Apr 18, 2006 at 07:10 by Nayeem

dunno where India Ranks among P2P… though internet is still in its growing stage but subscriber has increased steadily and India wit its weak copyright laws wil b pain in the neck for RIAA and MPAA and other such organisations…

9 Jun 08, 2006 at 16:42 by Online Education

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10 Jan 24, 2007 at 10:37 by Shawn

For the highest percentage of torrent users the speeds sure are slow

11 Jan 24, 2007 at 10:37 by Shawn

In singapore i mean..

12 Dec 17, 2007 at 17:32 by Fuurin Kazan

This is all a bit misleading. In Japan, for instance, A 2006 RIAJ survey ranked the top 5 p2p clients as Winny, WinMX, Limewire/Gnutella, Share and Cabos. Cachelogic’s study didn’t even examine four of these. Edonkey and Fasttrack never really caught on in Japan, and bittorrent is fairly minor.

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