Sandvine has released a new report on global Internet traffic that points to the growth of online data consumption and implies that the increasing use of legitimate content services such as Netflix may be softening the impact of illegal P2P file-sharing. At face value, that seems difficult to believe. “Online piracy is booming by any measure,” said industry analyst Jeff Kagan. “I don’t see how anyone could conclude it’s not.” Internet data usage is surging. In the past year, it increased by 120 percent on North American fixed-line networks.
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Slippery Statistics Suggest Online Piracy Is on the Wane
Posted by: Erika Morphy November 8, 2012 03:33 PMSandvine has released a new report on global Internet traffic that points to the growth of online data consumption and implies that the increasing use of legitimate content services such as Netflix may be softening the impact of illegal P2P file-sharing. At face value, that seems difficult to believe. “Online piracy is booming by any measure,” said industry analyst Jeff Kagan. “I don’t see how anyone could conclude it’s not.” Internet data usage is surging. In the past year, it increased by 120 percent on North American fixed-line networks.