[justaman]

> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.

[Moldoteck]

are you sure downloading of cop material is illegal? In a lot of countries it is permitted as long as you do not distribute that content further

[HideousKojima]

And even in the US merely downloading is usually only a civil and not a criminal offense

[jerf]

Might be able to get to 24% if "illegal downloading of copyrighted material" includes porn.

[e2le]

Porn was excluded from the study.

"What we're looking at is any type of infringing content. Film content, television, books, software, games, music. The only thing we're not looking at is pornography."

https://web.archive.org/web/20131005143240/http://www.netnam...

[TeMPOraL]

It'd probably stay the same if you excluded everything other than porn from your calculations.

[tomashubelbauer]

But in many jurisdictions that would still be completely legal as long as you didn't share the downloaded content with others.