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> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth. Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streamin
by justaman 3y ago
> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.
Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.
- jerf 3y agoMight be able to get to 24% if "illegal downloading of copyrighted material" includes porn.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoIt'd probably stay the same if you excluded everything other than porn from your calculations.
- tomashubelbauer 3y agoBut in many jurisdictions that would still be completely legal as long as you didn't share the downloaded content with others.
- e2le 3y agoPorn was excluded from the study. "What we're looking at is any type of infringing content. Film content, television, books, software, games, music. The only thing we're not looking at is pornography." https://web.archive.org/web/20131005143240/http://www.netnames.com/sizing_the_piracy_universe https://web.archive.org/web/20131005143240/http://www.netnam...
- Moldoteck 3y agoare you sure downloading of cop material is illegal? In a lot of countries it is permitted as long as you do not distribute that content further
- HideousKojima 3y agoAnd even in the US merely downloading is usually only a civil and not a criminal offense