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BitTorrent beats Kazaa, accounts for 53% of P2P traffic

Also on AlwaysOn: Over six months of surveying, CacheLogic found that Kazaa use had slipped far behind rival BitTorrent, which accounted for 53% of actual peer-to-peer network traffic. It found also that overall traffic has not been falling, as some have suggested. By June, an average of 8 million users were online at any given time, sharing a petabyte (10 million gigabytes) of data. Network monitoring firm BayTSP said the average number of people on the FastTrack network, which is dominated by Kazaa,...