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LimeWire and BitTorrent Dominating the P2P Market
By Robert | January 9, 2008
Recent statistics released have caused some uproar when talking about music and movie downloading software. A new report issued by Digital Music News and BigChampagne showed us that iTunes is not the most popular such program around. LimeWire stands out as one of the most looked after software with a lot more user support than previously thought of. We thus see that all personal computers that have a peer 2 peer client installed makes out a huge deal – 35 percent. LimeWire holds around 46 percent of them all, which translates in around 18 percent of all computers having the software installed. This means that it is the leading P2P client available. We can easily say that the darknet makes up for the majority of media downloads and piracy is not likely to go down in the future. One of the reasons why this happens is the price of media content. One iTunes song costs 99 cents. If we do the math we can easily see that filling up one iPod does cost a lot of money.
The major labels are constantly trying to increase the price paid for each song download and if we take a look at the data mentioned above, this is not a good idea. Also, another report pointed out the fact that BitTorrent is the leading P2P protocol when talking about nighttime P2P traffic. This can either mean that this client is more popular or that it is used to download more and/or larger sized files. The truth of the mater is that media price is still too high for the regular user and the capacity of storage we see in media players is continuously rising. A current generation iPod would cost an amount of around 5 digits in order to fill and with the possibility of getting it all free through P2P, although illegally, we can only think that a price that becomes higher would mean even more people turning towards LimeWire and BitTorrent.
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