… At one point, BitTorrent was said to be responsible for a huge amount of internet traffic — some widely cited metrics peg it at half of P2P and one-third of all internet traffic in 2004. …
… When web traffic is funneled through LLMs instead of a traditional search results page, as Google has been doing, being cited by a chatbot becomes ever more important. …
… They have built a bunch of features that are useful for media hosting, uploading, and reaching people.It is more the fact that that’s where the foot traffic is. That consolidation of traffic and of attention is one of the core problems. …
… They couldn’t share tactics. …