Researchers: BitTorrent Is Uniting the World’s Movie Buffs

People all over the world are downloading movies via BitTorrent, according to new research (PDF) presented at last week’s P2P Research Group convening at the 75th IETF Meetings in Stockholm. And we’re literally talking all over the world: A popular movie torrent analyzed as part of the research was within a week accessed by people from 165 countries. “Considering that there are about 192 countries recognized by the UN, this is a sizable spread of the swarm across the countries,” said Bell Labs researcher Vijay K.

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Researchers: BitTorrent Is Uniting the World’s Movie Buffs

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