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.

[Harkonnen]

On a personal note, I've downloaded 25gb and uploaded 7.6gb in the past 36 hours alone. And the other 4-5 computers in my house are probably chugging away at the bandwidth metres too.
This isn't bragging or anything, i'm just saying that 99% of the bandwidth in my household is torrent packets, rather than http packets (youtube, etc). This is probably not the norm, but not too far from the average either.

[SirSquidness]

On a personal note, I've downloaded 25gb and uploaded 7.6gb in the past 36 hours alone. And the other 4-5 computers in my house are probably chugging away at the bandwidth metres too.
This isn't bragging or anything, i'm just saying that 99% of the bandwidth in my household is torrent packets, rather than http packets (youtube, etc). This is probably not the norm, but not too far from the average either.

99% of the internet is not home users such as yourself.

I'd really love to see the figures on what uses what around the web. I'm almost certain I've seen them before, but I can't remember where/what.

I know spam makes up a huge percentage of it. Torrents are also a huge percentage.

Banks, huge corps, etc wouldn't make up as much as you think - afaik, most of them have private links for their major data routes.

*shrugs*