Torrent Meltdown Options

[Harkonnen]

• More than 50% of torrents tracked through the Pirate Bay
• If shut down, remaining trackers will fail if forced to take over the slack of directing 20 million concurrent connections
• Torrent filesharing in its current scale grinds to a halt

• 50-80% of global internet traffic in bulk data estimated to be torrent packets

So, when the Pirate Bay shuts down, effectively up to 80% of packets whipping around the internet will dry up? Is there a flaw in my logic train here? This just seems like it could be a massive event to internet infrastructure but I haven't really heard much about it.

[Ithuriel]

I think those traffic staistic are completely bullshit, The amount of other traffic on the internet is staggering. There is no way torrents can attribute that much data when you start to think about all the huge fiber links to coperations, Banks, Research labs, ISPs etc... Your saying they're all using torrents?