Verizon Indirectly Helping Internet Piracy
Verizon Communications Inc. has announced that it plans to help its users share files faster via peer-to-peer file sharing, or P2P. P2P is the primary method for illegal pirating and has always been unpopular with Internet service providers.
According to Arbor Networks, a company that tracks online traffic, file-sharing accounts for at least one-third of all internet traffic. Verizon has collaborated with Yale University and various other companies to enable faster downloads for consumers.
Verizon's new "P4P Working Group" was created to connect users to others close by, and not randomly across the internet. Currently, only 6.3% of the data that a Verizon customer downloads comes from a local user. In the P4P trial, 58% of the data came from nearby Verizon users. This drastically reduces the company's cost of carrying the traffic.
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