FBI's Megaupload bust 'has done little to reduce internet piracy'
Putlocker, Rapidshare and Mediafire traffic has risen
Overall piracy has 'not decreased much in North America' says analyst
Trade had recovered within 24 hours
By Rob Waugh
The FBI's recent seizure of Megaupload.com and its arrest of founder Kim Dotcom has done little to reduce piracy, says a web-traffic analyst.
In the hour after the bust, total internet trafffic around the world fell by two to three per cent - an indication of the scale of Megaupload, which hosted
34 per cent of file-sharing, according to analyst Deep Field Networks.
But just a day afterwards, the trade in shared music and films 'had not decreased much', says the analyst - it had just shifted to new services, and to
new computer servers in Europe, rather than America.
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The genie is out of that bottle and the smoke wont settle for some time yet if at all.