"Many adults who download files — which are often pornographic videos — do so on their company networks, according to new studies, consuming sizable chunks of bandwidth and other resources and putting their companies at risk of lawsuits for copyright infringement," reports Elizabeth Armstrong, The Christian Science Monitor, here.
"In one of the first studies of its kind, Blue Coat, a network monitoring company in Sunnyvale, Calif., reported last week that 39 percent of employees who use file- sharing services do so on company networks. That kind of activity can easily consume a third of a company's bandwidth, according to Blue Coat.
"Among file-sharers everywhere, the amount of material that is pornographic is high and rising. In the past 18 months, the share of peer-to-peer network traffic accounted for by video files jumped from 12.4 percent to 36.2 percent, according to Big Champagne. And 50.7 percent of all video files being shared are pornographic — up from 42 percent last September."
