P2P: The declared dead live longer

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P2P vs. Sharehoster vs. Streaming: A new study by irdeto says that although the use of illegal streaming portals has increased. Nevertheless, at least 800 million P2P downloads per month are calculated for the previous year worldwide. The P2P file sharing exchanges have experienced a veritable boom in 2017, despite the high warning risk.

In addition to irdeto, the Naspers group of companies also includes the Austrian software manufacturer Denuvo. Among other things, irdeto is an anti-piracy company and has its own goals. Therefore, the survey data should be treated with caution. According to irdeto, dangers such as malicious software are waiting for users on numerous illegal websites. Still, many users prefer to head to these sites, even though they know it carries some risk. For the survey, the consumption behavior of the surfers was evaluated in 19 nations. Web analytics companies have contributed their data to evaluate the traffic flow from 962 apparently illegal portals from January to September 2017.

P2P vs. Sharehoster vs. Streaming: The different types of file sharing do not cannibalize

Traffic generated in the United States from September last year through the consumption of illegal streams increased by 10 percent. P2P file sharing exchanges experienced a veritable boom in the previous year even without the mention in the media. Globally, over 800 million transfers were made there each month. The only exception was April 2017 with "only" 791 million downloads. According to the study, the two usage options do not take each other away from each other, but rather add them together.

irdeto expects sporadic online pirates to dodge streaming portals, while power downloaders prefer P2P downloads. Especially when it comes to movies or TV series, it is enough for many users to be able to consume the works. Only a few want to keep the files of the movies permanently on their own hard disk.

Peter Cossack, deputy head of cybersecurity services at irdeto, commented on the results as follows: "While many experts believe that P2P piracy has been overtaken by direct downloads (sharehosters) and streaming portals, the study clearly demonstrates that not done yet. P2P piracy continues to be a major threat to the industry, while copyright issues continue to grow overall. "Rising piracy is being driven by ever-increasing user bandwidth as well as the use of social networks by pirates. Social media play a major role in the illegal distribution of sports event streams, according to Cossack. All other forms of file sharing would not have decreased. This must be considered in the orientation of their own strategy in the fight against copyright infringement.