Bit Torrent Traffic Up 40% During The First Half Of This Year

Traffic to Bit Torrent sites was up 40 percent in North America during the first half of this year,  according to a new report from Sandvine. The report found that upstream to Bit Torrent sites represents 36.8 percent of Web traffic. To put this in perspective, Skype and NetFlix combined represent a little more than 10 percent of upstream traffic.

However the “Global Internet Phenomena Report 2H 2012” report points out, “the application continues to exhibit a steady downward trend in overall traffic share, declining to 10.31%

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