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Quotes by Andrew Parker

“This is almost assuredly a result of the increased legal action toward the once-ignored BitTorrent -- a game of P2P hide-and-seek.”

“Gnutella was once seen as dead so may be off the radar ... Its proof that legal pressure from industry groups results in the mass migration of file sharers to an alternative network, whether old or new. This cat and mouse game will continue.”

“The Grokster case did not result in a rapid decline in P2P usage.”

“This is almost assuredly a result of the increased legal action towards the once-ignored BitTorrent -- a game of P2P hide-and-seek.”

“That seems to be the trend most of the way around the globe, apart from Asia where there is a lot of BitTorrent. BitTorrent traffic levels are in decline.”

“The Whack-A-Mole game continues, ... The authorities go after one [peer-to-peer] system and another one pops up.”

“History is repeating itself. File-sharers moved from Kazaa to BitTorrent and now to eDonkey.”

“One reason people are looking at P2P is because it gets them away from CDN - content distribution networks.”

“Its very complex - P2P is very large objects, very long sessions, undocumented protocols, its very demanding. Your average copy of Squid or Microsoft ISA is not capable of dealing with P2P.”

“CacheLogic has noted a significant shift in the balance of traffic levels associated with the main P2P protocols through our unique access to actual web traffic data throughout the world,”