With the growth of video, BitTorrent share continues to see a decline in fixed access bandwidth share, and now accounts for only 5% of total traffic in North America. Last year during the same period it accounted for over 7%
Step 1 is getting people off BitTorrent. Once commercial streaming services take off as they have been, then come the price-hikes. By 2020, people will be paying for streaming content what they today today for their cable package and most of these services will be littered with pre-roll or post-roll ads or just product placement. We’ve traded one Hell (cable-TV) with another. Once people realize how painful and expensive streaming services have become, BitTorrent will probably see a resurgence.