The facts that the chart only covers smartphones and that it's a per-OS analysis notwithstanding, of course...

Yeah... But then you have God to explain. And then it's turtles all the way down...

Delicious...

Is open sores close enough?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/case-sensitivity.html

Seems to be working for these companies I'm talking about, and for some more, like Spotify. Either pay a monthly fee or enjoy the ads, but anyway get access to a huge catalog of content you wouldn't otherwise be purchasing.

Just like ISPs moved from charging by the minute or the kB to flat-rate, monthly billing.

A lot of P2P users out there aren't aware that they're sharing their whole drive, and you want them to know about port forwarding? What about those situations in which you're not in charge of the network?

The only thing I pointed out is that, from my own experience, I've seen many P2P sites and forums which have left torrents and elinks behind, in favor of file hosting services like Rapidshare.

Believe it or not, the majority of file sharers don't belong to that elite you seem to be speaking for, and that mambo-jambo about ports and forwards and peers sounds a lot more confusing that "click this link and type those characters into that box" to them. If that's easier for them, they'll just leave, and the drop in P2P traffic due to this will be significantly higher than what you and your computer-savvy friends could provoke if you all stopped torrenting.

Beside, when I use Rapidshare, I get upwards of 950 kB/s for a single file from the beginning (most of the time; when I don't, I just ask again for the file and that'll change the mirror) on a 320/1000 kbps DSL link. Call me back when you get that on uTorrent, from a single TCP connection that won't saturate a multi-user router like 200+ would.

Or maybe, like I've done, people are switching back to direct downloading.

Why waste your time installing and setting up an application (incl. firewall settings), when you can pay 55 euro por a year of rapidshare and download anything from anywhere?

eMule used to be really popular in Spain, with elinks flooding forums all around. Now it's all rapidshare, megaupload, easyshare...

According to Slashdot in every piracy article, this is actually "theft", because you are taking away something from its rightful owner, who will not be able to make use of it any more. Thanks for playing.

You mean like they did with the first PC OS (Behind the original mac OS) that they copied, then improved on to basically take over the world? It seems like the system worked for them...

FTFY. HAND. ;)

Is it me, or lately MS looks like a fireman with a watering can, running around trying to put out fires everywhere?

I mean, Zune (iPod), Bing (Google), this (Spottify)... Lagging behind the competition a little, are we?

Did you even care to finish reading his sentence? Is there something wrong with your English language parser?

It's the stupidity, economist! ;)