The threat of lawsuits has failed to deter Europeans from using the Internet to hoard free music, movies and video games, a technology firm that measures Internet traffic says.

The latest Hollywood movies, television shows and albums zipping between Internet users accounts for 70 percent to 80 percent of all Internet traffic handled daily by European Internet service providers (ISPs).

The level of peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic, according to Canadian traffic filtering company Sandvine Inc., has remained steady since the start of the year. [more @ www.reuters.co.uk]

Posted Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 at 8:36 pm
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