Usenet Piracy is growing at a tremendous rate. If you were to ask 10 normal people where piracy is most prevelant their reply will be bittorrent. While bittorrent continues to be a major cause for alarm an old resource is slowly slipping to the number one position. Its Usenet! Thats right, the 30 year old system that was created before the actual World Wide Web is rearing its head.
Currently there are an estimated 10 Terabytes a day being uploaded to Usenet. The average Xvid move is about 600 Megabytes.
If you do the math, thats equivalent to about 17,066 movies. Obviously its not all movies being uploaded to Usenet, but we wanted to give you something to relate to.
Here is a chart that we obtained from wikipedia to show how much Usenet has grown since 1996.
| Daily Volume | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 4.5 GB | 1996-12 | Altopia.com |
| 9 GB | 1997-07 | Altopia.com |
| 12 GB | 1998-01 | Altopia.com |
| 26 GB | 1999-01 | Altopia.com |
| 82 GB | 2000-01 | Altopia.com |
| 181 GB | 2001-01 | Altopia.com |
| 257 GB | 2002-01 | Altopia.com |
| 492 GB | 2003-01 | Altopia.com |
| 969 GB | 2004-01 | Altopia.com |
| 1.30 TB | 2004-09-30 | Octanews.net |
| 1.38 TB | 2004-12-31 | Octanews.net |
| 1.52 TB | 2005-01 | Altopia.com |
| 1.34 TB | 2005-01-01 | Octanews.net |
| 1.30 TB | 2005-01-01 | Newsreader.com |
| 1.81 TB | 2005-02-28 | Octanews.net |
| 1.87 TB | 2005-03-08 | Newsreader.com |
| 2.00 TB | 2005-03-11 | Various sources |
| 2.27 TB | 2006-01 | Altopia.com |
| 2.95 TB | 2007-01 | Altopia.com |
| 3.07 TB | 2008-01 | Altopia.com |
| 3.80 TB | 2008-04-16 | Newsdemon.com |
| 4.60 TB | 2008-11-01 | Giganews.com |
| 4.65 TB | 2009-01 | Altopia.com |
| 6.00 TB | 2009-12 | Newsdemon.com |
| 5.42 TB | 2010-01 | Altopia.com |
| 8.00 TB | 2010-09 | Newsdemon.com |
| 7.52 TB | 2011-01 | Altopia.com |
| 8.25 TB | 2011-10 | Thecubenet.com |
| 9.19 TB (estimate) | 2012-01 | Altopia.com |
That is staggering if you try to wrap your head around just how much content is being uploaded. We are not advocating that Usenet is 100% bad. It has a very valid use, but like anything in technology it can be used for a negative use. Should we ban Usenet? Absolutely not. The Morganelli Group is here to help without the need to rewrite laws. We offer a very competitive suite of options to help you with your anti-piracy efforts.
