Piracy Nearly A Quarter Of Global Internet Traffic, Says Study

Internet piracy is as big as…everyone already probably assumed it was.

But just in the case the Motion Picture Association of America hasn't sufficiently scared you with fresh statistics lately, here’s a new trove of numbers commissioned by NBC Universal. Of the 23.8 percent found to be copyright-infringing material, bittorrents led the way as the most plentiful source, accounting for nearly half that amount (11.4 percent). Coming in second was so-called “cyberlockers,” otherwise known as file-sharing sites like RapidShare (5.1 percent), followed by video-streaming sites i.e. Megavideo (1.4 percent) and finally, Usenet and other lesser utilized P2P sites (0.86 percent). In the U.S. alone, piracy accounted for somewhat less compared with worldwide (17.5 percent). Bittorrent led the way as well stateside (9.1 percent).