Is Digital Theft Still on the Rise?
A shocking 23.8 percent of all traffic on the internet around the world involves digital theft with BitTorrent responsible for 11.4 percent of that traffic. BitTorrent is a peer sharing protocol that is used to obtain a large amount of data over the Internet. It is one of the more popular protocols that distribute a great amount of data without loading down the computer. In the United States, more than 17 percent of internet traffic involves copyright infringement, with BitTorrent accounting for 9 percent. The price of internet piracy is ultimately passed to the consumer, who will have to bear slower internet speeds and higher costs.
With these high numbers, the Motion Picture Association of America, MPAA, calls on the government to crack down. The MPAA’s interim president, Bob Pisano, commented, saying “our society would not tolerate a situation where one quarter of all the traffic in and out of the bakeries, butcher shops and grocery stores involved stolen merchandise, and we cannot tolerate the vast explosion of digital theft on the Internet.” The problem will only worsen if nothing is one.
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