While we all know that filesharing makes up a lot of the Internet’s traffic, we had no idea that it was quite this much. Believe it or not, about 44% of all North American Internet traffic is used up by people accessing P2P filesharing networks.

This number is up from 41% just one year ago. The top-three forms of Internet traffic, according to the survey, are P2P filesharing (43.5%), Web browsing (27.3%) and streaming media (14.8%). We wonder where watching porn fits into those figures.

Apparently, P2P filesharing accounts for an even larger slice of the upstream traffic, eating up about twice as much bandwidth as all other traffic combined. In the face of such a statistic, which must surely be representative of a lot of countries, is there any way that the music industry can continue to ignore filesharing? Surely the logical step is to introduce paid filesharing services.

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