Anyone know how many people use torrents each year?
Is there somewhere where I can get stats?
I was going to use the cnet figures that show something like 150m+ downloads for torrent clients, but not sure if that is annual, all time or something else.
Don´t have time but here you have some numbers, which are not answer to your question.
From Cisco report P2P traffic consumed over 5,374 petabytes per month, which
accounted for approximately 20.5% of consumer internet traffic in 2012 (and Cisco prediction for 2013-2018 is more less same ).
From another paper they searched from 12th august 2013 one month for distinct active IPs for breaking bad s05e09 find 1,954,961 with peak every day between 8 - 9 pm.