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Originally Posted by erol
Really? So if every car user that is using his car for an illegal activity was to be removed from the roads there would be far less chance of road congestion would there? Or maybe the more you free up the road, the more cars that then come and fill the void until you are back where you started, regardless of whether the journies are illegal or not ?
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60% (approx) of people on the road aren't using their cars illegally, though.
60% of traffic on most networks, higher on some, lower on others, is P2P traffic. We don't know whether it's legal or illegal P2P traffic, but come on, let's not be naieve it's hardly ever likely to be legal. I've prolly only downloaded one or two legal things via WinMX et al.
If 60% of the traffic was removed from the network then yes it would reduce overall network traffic would decrease and there would be at that point more available bandwidth!
Look at it this way, 60% of traffic accross most residential ISPs is P2P. If P2P vanished (which isn't likely!) then there would be 60% less traffic, assuming that userbase stayed the same and network capacity wasn't reduced.
Taking your car analogy again. Leave all the roads as they are, same amount of lanes etc. Now take away 60% of the cars. I imagine that even in rush hour there would be a lot less congestion, sure there would still be some, as there would on the 'net. But a lot less. 60% less, in fact!