Post-LimeWire P2P traffic falls

NPD Group reports that 12% of US web users accessed P2P services in Q3 of 2010 but this had dropped to 9% by Q4. This marks a continued drop from the 16% who accessed such sites in 2007.

Much has been made of the timing, given that LimeWire, one of the biggest P2P services, was taken offline in October. In the long-running case against LimeWire, it was revealed that 93% of its traffic was made up of unlicensed files.

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