One-third of the total Internet transfer amount is BitTorrent

According to a recent survey, it is becoming evident that one-third is actually BitTorrent relation when seeing the transfer amount of the Internet as a whole at the global level, not at the domestic level, that is, traffic.

For that reason, overseas providers are increasing the number of restrictions on transfer rate and speed regulation, such as allowing only transfer of 40 GB per month. A similar case has happened in Japan, but it seems that it happens overseas as well .... I tried to summarize what is going on in concrete terms.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | BitTorrent battles over bandwidth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4905660.stm

According to BBC, it seems that each provider wanting to pay a certain amount of fee to those who use a lot of bandwidth. Even if additional investment is made to secure the bandwidth, it is not worth paying if it is an all-you-can-use plan with a fixed monthly fee. Certainly P2P related file sharing software is killer content for broadband, but there is also an acceptable limit.

Especially the headache hurts the transfer amount difference with normal users. Transfer occurs only when the normal user is in front of the personal computer, but in the case of users who use the P2P file sharing software, if you first set up file sharing, it is basically neglected. Therefore, since the transfer continues indefinitely, the amount of transfer increases unnecessarily, it seems that it will put pressure on the circumstances of the wallet of the provider.

In order to solve this transfer problem, there are devices that overseas providers are currently circulating devices that only find BitTorrent related transfers and control speed. It is a similar feeling in Japan because of Winny's example.

However, overseas BitTorrent related programmers struggled confidently, encrypting the protocol seems to be passing through this regulation device so that it is not BitTorrent relation from packet. Of course, it takes a burden on the CPU by that much, but it seems to be judged better than regulating the transfer speed.

As for the real intention of the provider, it seems like a plan to charge according to the transfer amount used like a mobile phone packet price seems preferable. Like water, electricity, gas, please pay only for the amount you used. That way, there will be no heavy users who will surely continue to connect and keep transferring, even if you use bandwidth bite software like BitTorrent, you will not do more than necessary transfer.

By the way, the following sites are detailed about Japanese provider regulatory circumstances.

ISP regulation information Wiki
http://isp.oshietekun.net/