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‘Shocking’ 61% of all Upstream Internet Traffic is P2P

By Ernesto
on October 21, 2008
C: 66

Sandvine, best known for manufacturing the hardware that slowed down BitTorrent users on Comcast, has released an Internet traffic trends report today. The report shows that, on average, P2P traffic is responsible for more than half of the upstream traffic, but mostly the report seems an attempt to sell their…

BitTorrent Encryption Confuses the BPI, ISPs and Journalists Who Don’t Research

By Ernesto
on November 9, 2007
C: 76

A recently published article by The Register claims that an increase in encrypted BitTorrent traffic is due to the fact that people want to hide or scramble the files they are sharing. Apparently some tech journalists, and in particular the anti-piracy organizations, have no clue what BitTorrent encryption actually does.

Company Cracks BitTorrent Protocol Encryption and Introduces Tracker Whitelists

By Ernesto
on April 27, 2007
C: 22

The BitTorrent bandwidth battle continues. Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs, announced today that their products are now able to detect and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic. In addition, they introduce the option to maintain a "whitelist" of legal BitTorrent trackers…

BitTorrent aids Terrorists and Pedophiles

By Ernesto
on March 1, 2006
C: 22

In Friday's edition of BBC's newsnight, BitTorrent is portrayed as the new evil that helps terrorists and pedophiles to do their "job" without being noticed. In a dramatic 4 minute report the public is led to believe that BitTorrent is a threat to (inter)national security. Unbelievable, see for yourself.