Another study confirms that 99 percent of P2P files are pirated

Only 0.3% of files on BitTorrent confirmed to be legal [ArsTechnica]

Coming as no surprise, a group of researchers from the University of Ballarat's Internet Commerce Security Laboratory in Australia have confirmed that the vast majority of files traded via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol are pirated copies of copyrighted content. The researchers studied torrents from 23 separate trackers of P2P file trading, surveying a sample 1000 randomly selected files offered up for download via BitTorrent. Their finding: 89 percent of the files were definitely pirated copies and most of the remaining 11 percent were likely to be infringing copies. 

Only three files were confirmed to be not infringing.

The results of the University of Ballarat study support the work that Princeton University researchers released earlier this year that showed 99 percent of P2P files infringed on copyrights. And while the Princeton researchers only reviewed BitTorrent results from a single tracker, the University of Ballarat surveyed a number of torrent trackers, with 80 percent of results coming from 4 trackers.

Comments

[Kazu]

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[Paul Templeton]

The study is flawed.
http://torrentfreak.com/tech-news-sites-tout-misleading-bittorrent-piracy-study-100724/