What’s Next for P2P?

"P2P: Content's "Bad Boy"; Tomorrow's Distribution Channel" report has been included in their offering, Research and Markets announces.

At the moment peer-to-peer data is accountable for a big percent of all consumer traffic over the Internet (44.0%, says the MarketWatch) with most of the data in question consisting of audio and video files -over 70%). Along with this huge increase in p2p traffic came the transition from to broadband caps and traffic throttling was quickly adopted in an attempt to keep this "wave" at lower levels.

There are, of course, questions and issues related to the p2p phenomenon pending and demanding the attention of P2P markets and, in fact, of all those involved in the online content business – how are the new trends defined, what has p2p come to mean, is this traffic going to be monetized, are only a few examples of such issues.

Although successfully addressing online piracy remains a goal we can take one thing for certain - the demand for online content is on constant increasing.

The progress in the area of the online content has brought higher quality video for instance but also the need to come up with efficient distributing ways.

In spite of the fact that many still can’t see beyond its controversial reputation, p2p undeniably stands for a key role in the future of the Internet. And as new technologies, such as P4P, gain acceptance and groups such as the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) bring respective parties together the future for P2P and digital content looks that much more promising.

ResearchAndMarkets writes:

"P2P Networking: Content's "Bad Boy" Becomes Tomorrow's Distribution Channel" analyzes the P2P market in terms of worldwide broadband penetration, consumer consumption of data, audio and video files and its associated revenue. Forecasts are provided on an annual or per monthly average (e.g. PB/month) from 2006 through 2012.

Forecasts include:

- Worldwide and Regional Broadband Penetration
- Worldwide Consumer Internet Data Volume
- P2P Traffic as Measure by Quantity of Bits Transferred, by Content Type and by Number Monthly P2P Files
- Media P2P Files by Content Type (audio and video), Monthly Data Volume by Content Type and Legal Media by Conten Type
- “Value” of Purchased and Pirated Music Tracks, Short-Form P2P Video Content, Episodic P2P Video Content and Long-Form P2P Video Content
- Apportioned US ISP CAPEX and OpEX Resulting from P2P