*File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era * Posted on February 7, 2012 <http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/02/07/file-sharing-in-the-post-megaupload-era/>by Craig Labovitz <http://blog.deepfield.net/author/labovit/> On January 18, 2012 global file sharing traffic collapsed. In a series of coordinate raids, US and New Zealand authorities seized thousands of MegaUpload servers and arrested its founder <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577172010520529848.ht...> (at his own birthday party, no less). As the largest file sharing service on the Internet, MegaUpload downloads represented 30-40% of all file sharing. In the space of an hour, Internet traffic globally plummeted by an astounding 2-3%. Press releases <http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-l...> heralded a major blow to the theft of intellectual property. So what happened to Internet file sharing traffic after the MegaUpload arrests? Today we're publishing the results of three month research effort that provides some of the clues. More details are available in our NANOG presentation <http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog54/abstracts.php?pt=MTkwNCZuYW5vZzU0&nm=n...> and earlier academic paper <http://www.monkey.org/%7Elabovit/cv.html#papers>. [...] Continua qui: http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/02/07/file-sharing-in-the-post-megaupload-era...