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Old 17-10-03, 10:21 AM   #1
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Default FastTrack P2P loses ground to eDonkey: Study

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003

Kazaa is not the powerhouse file-sharing system its critics claim, a Canadian company says.

The peer-to-peer file-sharing software used with the network operated by FastTrack and the leading target of a legal battle being waged by the recording industry, is still the most popular application in North America, but Europeans prefer eDonkey.

Not only do they gravitate to eDonkey, Europeans look for different things on peer-to-peer networks from North Americans, says Sandvine Inc., a network-equipment maker based in Waterloo, Ont.

P2P, as the technology is known, is now a multi-application reality, Sandvine says.

FastTrack-based applications generate more than 76 per cent of Internet traffic in North America, Sandvine reported, while eDonkey accounted for less than 1 per cent.

Elsewhere, however, eDonkey dominates. In Germany and Israel, for instance, eDonkey accounts for 52 per cent of traffic, and FastTrack for 44 per cent (Germany) and 47 per cent (Israel).

Although more British users still prefer FastTrack (59 per cent), a growing number (20 per cent) have moved to eDonkey. Surprisingly, WinMX, a new P2P system that has largely been ignored in North America and Europe, accounts for 20 per cent of British traffic.

The preference for eDonkey among Europeans is a reflection on user tastes, the company said.

The eDonkey protocol is particularly suited to sharing large files of 600 megabytes or more, suggesting that Europeans are using P2P networks more for trading movies or large software programs. Those sharing music and software files typically 3MB to 7MB in size favour FastTrack, which is more suitable for handling smaller files.

Another factor in eDonkey's is its language capabilities. Clients can be obtained in a variety of international versions.

Analysts agree. A Jupiter survey of 5,000 European Internet users conducted over the summer showed that 15 per cent of European P2P users download at least one movie per month. File sharers in Spain proved to be the keenest in this regard, with 38 per cent admitting to downloading at least one movie each month.

Only 12 per cent of American Internet users download a video each month, Jupiter found.

Interestingly, Gnutella, an open-source file-sharing network, is "all but gone," Sandvine said.

Gnutella still retains a foothold in North America (8 per cent of all P2P traffic), it but has been reduced to the role of a minor player as a proportion of overall P2P-related bandwidth in Europe. Gnutella, which was the first to fill the void left with the collapse of Napster, quickly exceeded Napster's peak user base of 24 million.

Only three years old, Gnutella (its most used software is BearShare) has dropped in popularity, Sandvine says, most likely as a result of the large number of Gnutella-based applications. An open-source system, it has "created a dog's breakfast of differing clients, each with its own unique interface and reputation for usability and effectiveness," Sandvine said, and its users have "simply found the oversaturated store of Gnutella clients and associated latest versions too hard to follow.

"At some point over the past 12 to 14 months, this tyranny-of-choice scenario began to shrink Gnutella's user base," Sandvine concluded.

The rapid changes in file-sharing preferences result from the instability of the system, Sandvine said. In such a "Wild West mentality" anything can happen, the company concluded.

"The file sharing marketplace is really only a few years old, but it's changing rapidly and we're now seeing measurable divergences along geographic, even national lines," Sandvine's Chris Colman said.

"In the beginning there was only Napster. Today's file-sharing environment is much more fragmented, with a varying proportional mix of current and emerging P2P applications dominating in each region ... If a wildly popular application like Gnutella can emerge and all but disappear in less than three years, it's certainly possible that FastTrack, too, could one day be headed for history's technology dustbin," Mr. Colman said.from
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