track secure annual reportprotect Online Trends & Insight 2008 business intelligence track secure BAY TSP protect monetization BAY TSP Introduction 2008 saw the mainstream acceptance of streaming video, applications. The issue first appeared in 2007 when the Associated demonstrated by the explosive popularity of authorized streaming Press reported that Comcast customers claimed that their network sites like Hulu and ABC.com. At the same time, P2P piracy still connections were being throttled and the company denied that it accounted for the majority of traffic across the Internet. was doing it. The FCC decision was viewed as a victory for Net Neutrality advocates. The owners of one of the largest torrent indexing sites, TorrentSpy, announced in March that they were shutting down in the face of The European bandwidth management and analysis firm ipoque ongoing litigation with the Motion Picture Association of America, reported that the amount of bandwidth consumed by people using which eventually won a $100 million award against the site. Owner file sharing applications increased in 2008 over the previous year, Justin Bunnell said he was shutting the site down to protect the though at a slower rate of growth. The company also reported that privacy of the people who used it. BitTorrent and eDonkey were the largest contributors and that if those protocols were shut down, the amount of P2P traffic across Daniel Dove, an administrator of the torrent tracking site Elite Tor- the Internet would drop dramatically. rents, was convicted in what the Justice Department called the “first With the growing enforcement focus on P2P networks, file sharers criminal conviction after jury trial for P2P copyright infringement.” are shifting their attention to Cyberlockers and Usenet newsgroups. FBI, Customs and local law enforcement, participating in Operation GigaNews, the largest Usenet provider, reported at the end of the D-Elite, shut down the site and arrested administrators in 2005 as year that upload traffic jumped to a sustained level averaging part of a nationwide federal crackdown against the illegal dis- well over 400 megabits per second, representing more than 4.3 tribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over terabytes of new user generated content and discussions daily. P2P networks. Two other Elite Torrents administrators pled guilty and served five months in prison. Dove was sentenced later in the By the end of the year BayTSP reported that 15 studios were using year to 18 months. the company’s Content Authentication Platform to identify where their content is appearing on user generated content sites and col- The Federal Communications Commission determined that lecting business intelligence data. Comcast had implemented technology across its network that throttled or delayed packets being sent to customers using P2P 2 Digital Piracy Statistics for Top Protocols BitTorrent extended its dominance as the most popular file sharing pro- tocol in 2008, according to data collected by BayTSP on the num ber of infringements of client content found across P2P protocols and user- generated content sites. BitTorrent surpassed eDonkey in 2007 and the two protocols accounted for the vast majority of copyright in fringements of BayTSP client content. IRC and FastTrack have become increasing- ly obsolete sharing protocols during 2008, with both falling off the Top 10 list. Replacing these outdated protocols are user-generated content sites like Youtube, Mega video and Dailymotion. 2007 2008 Rankings Rankings Counts 1 1 BitTorrent 174,229,660 2 2 eDonkey 131,997,341 5 3 Ares 2,403,199 4 4 Gnutella 2,050,382 3 5 DirectConnect 1,057,170 9 6 YouTube 544,657 13 7 MySpace 414,324 n/a 8 Mega Video 195,491 14 9 DailyMotion 83,243 11 10 Usenet 56,566 3 © BayTSP 2009 408-341-2300 www.BayTSP.com Online Trends & Insight Report Month JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC BitTorrent 5441979 10695608 11153441 9870791 7653076 10006689 10380047 14174318 19406455 28041938 22073693 20620840 BitTorrent Tracker 30391 40376 50869 37284 59073 39942 152487 388408 309152 775343 1075139 640211 BitTorrent eDonkey 959059 2441209 2997291 2415640 1675299 8681950 14465178 19893469 18810137 18772477 20312407 20573225 1%0%0%1%0% eDonkey Ares 335645 362026 146222 469130 457256 82029 104948 113837 103199 92002 91505 45400 Ares BitTorrent Web 92278 46802 82557 37692 72910 73975 140365 157677 70743 73733 122188 141190 29% 39% Gnutella DirectConnect 139338 241502 219218 194074 135848 45611 17292 16803 18397 14751 10041 4295 DirectConnect Gnutella 109266 193875 199158 183395 154685 159904 173801 190983 165277 139976 231684 148378 Usenet Usenet 2213 1955 4865 2892 3304 2784 5337 5705 1588 896 478 6365 eBay IRC 29% Rapidshare eBay 1983 1903 2022 2148 2207 2073 1217 1558 1285 1561 492 16013 FTP FastTrack 1575 61783 528 126 134 998 568 114 35 6 1 2 FTP 124 290 181 220 196 48 82 0 41 97 9 107 Graboid 475 3780 3782 552 1094 515 1309 1715 213 0 0 4749 Hotline 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 IRC 1053 1437 1060 1235 480 995 420 413 679 6121 14192 4601 Auction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Cyberlocker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 422 eBay 1983 1903 2022 2148 2207 2073 1217 1558 1285 1561 492 16013 Rapidshare 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 664 10199 4374 4710 1244 YouTube 46482 39844 34031 37797 43305 37333 62766 52271 50996 42069 48077 49686 Yahoo Video 36819 41916 33443 42547 35356 24666 849 36 0 102 76 222 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2441209 2997291 2415640 1675299 8681950 14465178 19893469 18810137 18772477 20312407 20573225 131997341 174229660 131997341 14720403 Ares 335645 362026 146222 469130 457256 82029 104948 113837 103199 92002 91505 45400 2403199 5564648 Gnutella 109266 193875 199158 183395 154685 159904 173801 190983 165277 139976 231684 148378 2050382 DirectConnect 139338 241502 219218 194074 135848 45611 17292 16803 18397 14751 10041 4295 1057170 Usenet 2688 5735 8647 3444 4398 3299 6646 7420 1801 896 478 11114 56566 eBay 1983 1903 2022 2148 2207 2073 1217 1558 1285 1561 492 16013 34462 IRC 1053 1437 1060 1235 480 995 420 413 679 6121 14192 4601 32686 Rapidshare 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 664 10199 4374 4739 1666 21642 FTP 124 290 181 220 196 48 82 0 41 97 9 107 1395 Megavideo 2069 5298 2287 952 1051 2264 5257 9348 10166 10653 12735 717 Dailymotion 7844 6285 3407 1860 3213 1285 3550 6853 7025 11634 23361 6926 Veoh 3460 4997 2024 312 2227 3804 3836 4116 4719 5858 9634 3452 Google Video 822 404 351 203 515 4203 8834 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DirectConnect 139338 241502 219218 194074 135848 45611 17292 16803 18397 14751 10041 4295 Gnutella 109266 193875 199158 183395 154685 159904 173801 190983 165277 139976 231684 148378 Usenet 2213 1955 4865 2892 3304 2784 5337 5705 1588 896 478 6365 70000 eBay FastTrack FTP Graboid 52500 Hotline IRC 35000 17500 0 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC eBay 1983 1903 2022 2148 2207 2073 1217 1558 1285 1561 492 16013 FastTrack 1575 61783 528 126 134 998 568 114 35 6 1 2 FTP 124 290 181 220 196 48 82 0 41 97 9 107 Graboid 475 3780 3782 552 1094 515 1309 1715 213 0 0 4749 Hotline 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 IRC 1053 1437 1060 1235 480 995 420 413 679 6121 14192 4601 20000 Auction Cyberlocker eBay 15000 Rapidshare 10000 5000 0 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC Auction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Cyberlock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 422 eBayer 1983 1903 2022 2148 2207 2073 1217 1558 1285 1561 492 16013 Rapidshar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 664 10199 4374 4710 1244 e 70000 YouTube Yahoo Video 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