Filesharing sites hosting illegally-uploaded content generate many billions of hits per year, a new study shows.
Anti-fraud company MarkMonitor focused on a very small sample of sites ? 43 ? and found they alone totalled over 53 billion hits last year.
Megavideo, Megaupload and Rapidshare were the most popular, those three racking up over 21 billion hits.
"The numbers are staggering," says Charlie Abrahams, vice president of MarkMonitor.
"Upload sites, alongside instant messaging and blogs, are now on a par with peer-to-peer sites when it comes to piracy."
Links are spread via instant messaging and anonymous blogs, making it very hard to stop.
Mark Mulligan of research firm Forrester told the BBC it was very similar to the Napster situation a decade ago.
"It is complete deja vu and it took a very long time to close that down," he said.
New legislation against filesharing software is already looking out of date.
"Illegal file-sharing is becoming incredibly complex and it is becoming over-burdensome to try and police it," he says.
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Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on . Upload sites as popular as P2P for filesharing - study http://pokit.etf.ba/get/dc2256940e946dc87804fe1f2cff35e7.jpg Filesharing sites hosting illegally-uploaded content generate many billions of hits per year, a new study shows. Anti-fraud company MarkMonitor focused on a very small sample of sites ? 43 ? and found they alone totalled over 53 billion hits last year. Megavideo, Megaupload and Rapidshare were the most popular, those three racking up over 21 billion hits. "The numbers are staggering," says Charlie Abrahams, vice Rating: 5