Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.

Somehow I doubt this one.

I mean I can believe that some people have switched from BT to news with the surge of the arr stack, and that streaming has definitely curbed use of BT for a while.

But “pretty much all”? That’s harder to believe. Especially since streaming is starting to go to shit again.

Lol, that point about VPNs making the measurement a bit pointless at the end

since this is rating traffic as % of total… I imagine this is less a result of “bittorrent is dying/nobody uses it” and more a result of “the rest of the internet traffic has grown exponentially with the availability of ubiquitous fast connections, while the number of bittorrent consumers has been roughly steady”

no shit BitTorrent was the majority of traffic in 2004. Most connected users were still using some form of DSL or low-bandwidth cable, and some of us were even still using ISDN/Dialup. Even youtube was still a pipe-dream, so most “normal” browsing folk were loading forum web pages with sizes <50k per page. Bittorrent allowing resilient, long-term downloads over slow pipes was the only thing that even EXISTED for bulk data transfer, and could saturate a pipe for days.