[LINK] Should we revert to analog TV or scrap wireless broadcasting all together?

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Stilgherrian
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 6:22 PM
> To: The Link Institute
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Should we revert to analog TV or scrap 
> wireless broadcasting all together?
> 
> 
> On 24/02/2009, at 6:11 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> > Many of you would be aware that Chris Gilbey and I are 
> researching P2P 
> > file sharing practices. Specifically the 68% of the Australian 
> > population that would appear to utilise Bittorrent or Emule on a PC 
> > connected to tvu.org.ru with the choice of over 250,000 tv shows.
> 
> What???!?!??!
> 
> Where'd this 68% number come from? Only 70-odd percent of Australian  
> households even have broadband Internet connections AT ALL, and my  
> experience with small business and SOHO users is that most of 
> them can  
> barely use email, let alone install BitTorrent clients.
> 
> Linkage please! Or I call shenanigans.
> 
> Or are you taking as gospel the inflated numbers touted by 
> the Big End  
> of Town Music and Movie Industries?
> 
> Stil

Firstly, those that know me, would never assume I accepted anything from
the big end of town :-)

(With the exception of Practice note 17 which I though was pretty damn
suprisingly good.)

I blogged about this last week Stil - you must have missed it.

http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/2/20/4098617.html

The numbers come from several sources, however In my blog I used the
Whirlpool numbers. 
http://whirlpool.net.au/survey/2007/
They are confirmed at a slightly higher percentage by the Ipoque
numbers.
Unfortunately I can only provide you with the 2007 URL
http://www.ipoque.com/resources/internet-studies/internet-study-2007.