Report reveals heavy cost of P2P
Friday, May 29th 2009 at 12:11PMThe report, Copycats? Digital Consumers in the on-line age was commissioned by The Strategic Advisory Board and conducted by UCL's Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER).
It examines online consumer behaviour in the UK and its potential impact on business and government policy.
The authors of the report found that on one P2P network at midday on a weekday, there were 1.3m users sharing content.
If each "peer" from this network downloaded one file per day ...
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