Erik from Mininova told TorrentFreak that he expected to reach the 3 million downloads faster than this, but he’s not complaining since the current traffic numbers keep the servers busy enough. “We hope to reach the 4 billion mark in 4 or 5 months from now” he added.

Mininova continues to optimize their site and server park in order to cope with the increasing traffic. As can be seen from the graph, the 3 billion download mark was reached by the end of October, and there is no sign that the growth is slowing down any time soon. I wonder if it will ever stop.

Mininova .torrent downloads

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Country P2P Preferences

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

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.

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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