“NBC Wants FCC To Force ISPs To Police Their Networks For Copyright Infringement from the that's-a-stretch dept NBC Universal has filed a comment with the FCC, saying that ISPs should be forced to police their networks (via Broadband Reports) for copyrighted content that's being illegally shared. The company says that 60-70% of all internet traffic is made up of P2P activity, and copyrighted content constitutes 90% of that (he doesn't, of course, note that all content is copyrighted -- and he doesn't seem to distinguish between authorized or fair use content and unauthorized).....” Please read more at their site.
What caught my attention is that we Canadians are using less than 10% of the Internet usage in North America. I hope the charts are self-explanatory but from my academic and telecom training, it is quite unlikely we are a major contributor to the above claim. I created the pie chart to illustrate Canadian usage against the US and the other countries that they used to make-up North America. The raw data is from http://www.internetworldstats.com/
If there are any errors please send me an e-mail ASAP.
5 comments:
I can't seem to find any reference in any of the articles to Canada. The issue was being treated as a USA internal event. HOWEVER, Canada because of weak copyright laws provide the source of the illegal files for download. Despite accounting for the expected 10% of the traffic they host a large percentage of the illegal content being "fetched" by the 60-70% of us P2P users.
Selah - DR
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