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P2P Piracy Is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests
While the rise of online streaming sites can't be denied, a new research report from anti-piracy outfit Irdeto shows that P2P remains very relevant. In fact, it's still the dominant piracy tool in many countries. Irdeto researched site traffic data provided by an unnamed web analytics partner. The sample covers web traffic to 962 piracy sites in 19 countries where P2P was most used. This makes it possible to see how P2P site visits compare to those of pirate streaming sites.
The data reveal that there are massive differences in the relative use of P2P versus streaming sites between countries. In Russia, for example, only 2% of the visits go to streaming sites, while the rest of the traffic goes to P2P portals. P2P also outperforms streaming in other countries such as Australia, the Netherlands, and India. This pattern is reversed in Germany, where 88% of all visits go to pirate streaming sites. Similarly, streaming is also the dominant web piracy tool in the United States, France, Spain and other countries.
Additional research in eight countries shows that piracy traffic has grown during the course of 2017. This growth also applies to P2P sites, in all but one country, Germany. Looking at the sample as a whole, Iredeto notes that 70% of all pirate traffic goes to P2P sites, which appears to run counter to the popular narrative that streaming is more dominant today.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:20PM (2 children)
I wouldn't think addons would be necessary if you had anything else on the network sharing some directories over NFS or SMB. Maybe if you just had to start watching something ASAFP instead of waiting on a torrent to finish.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:07PM (1 child)
I don't think you understand how convenient "fully loaded" Kodi can be. The best add-ons present a Netflix-esque browsing interface, except without the artificial catalog limitations [engadget.com].
I'll admit that it can have its bad moments (movies without any working stream sources, buffering issues, or lower quality stuff than you can torrent), but when it works, it works pretty well. There are also add-ons for stuff like live streaming TV.
I don't have any Kodi box right now (gave it to a friend and I just watch stuff on laptop most of the time), but I would probably set it up again in 2020 or so when devices start shipping with AV1 [wikipedia.org] hardware decoding support. I want to future proof for streams/files that are smaller than H.265 encoded equivalents.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:57PM
Depends on your priorities, I guess. I'd rather go do something else for a little while so a download of a much better than Internet streaming quality copy can forever sit upon a media server. That way I can watch it in good quality whenever I like from now on, stick it on a thumb drive, phone, or tablet, or watch it when the cable is out because a limb fell across a line somewhere.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.