{"id":993,"date":"2011-02-08T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2011-02-08T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:22:32","slug":"p2p-majority-agrees-with-avenue-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"P2P Majority Agrees with Avenue Q ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appearently a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.envisional.com\/docs\/Envisional-Internet_Usage-Jan2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Envisional study<\/a> has found that the majority of <strong>Peer To Peer<\/strong> users believe that &#8220;<strong>The Internet Is For Porn<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In attempting to discover how much copyrighted material is being pirated, the <strong>NBC Universal<\/strong> commissioned study found that out of the 10,000 transfered files they examined, <strong>35.8% were porn<\/strong>, followed closely by film at 35.2% and television programing at 12.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Of those 10,000 <strong>PublicBT<\/strong> files, only 2.9% were illegal music downloads. But of course the study also found that &#8220;<em>23.76% of traffic was estimated to be infringing<\/em>&#8220;, meaning that almost a quarter of all internet traffic involved copyright violations of some sort, excluding porn.<\/p>\n<p>When concentrating on American transfers <strong>Envisional<\/strong> found that 17.53% of the transfers were infringing. And that 20% of the transfers were conducted on Peer To Peer networks, 13.8% of which were copyright violations.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of streaming on the net was either legal or porn according to the study, video streaming accounting for 27% to 30% of the transfers. Only an estimated 1.56% of this streaming material was deemed infinging. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.envisional.com\/docs\/Envisional-Internet_Usage-Jan2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> also establishes that 93.4% of <strong>Usenet<\/strong> posts contain copyrighted material, which is rather interesting. I had thought most people had given up on this antiquated distribution method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearently a recent Envisional study has found that the majority of Peer To Peer users believe that &#8220;The Internet Is For Porn&#8220;. In attempting to discover how much copyrighted material is being pirated, the NBC Universal commissioned study found that out of the 10,000 transfered files they examined, 35.8% were porn, followed closely by film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[352,613,639,686,698,714,733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}