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Cambridge England's CacheLogic has released results of a study that it conducted regarding peer-to-peer (P2P) activity and its impact on ISPs.

The study shows that P2P file-sharing has not really slowed down, but where BitTorrent was the popular way to go last year, more people are now using eDonkey for their file-sharing.

As the government has shut down many popular sites, eDonkey has become a replacement for many people, especially in the United States, China, Japan and Britain.

According to CacheLogic, between 50 and 70 percent of all data traffic on ISP networks, comes from P2P file-sharing. MacWorld reports:

At the end of 2004, BitTorrent accounted for 30 per cent of all Internet traffic. But after the Motion Picture Association of America's moves to shut down BitTorrent tracking sites, centralized servers for locating distributed content, swappers began moving to other less-publicized services.

Today, eDonkey, a system that uses no centralized servers or tracking sites, consumes the most bandwidth of any application on the Internet, particularly overseas, according to Parker. In the US, Gnutella has seen resurgence in popularity among swappers.

"The Whack-A-Mole game continues," said CacheLogic CTO Andrew Parker. "The authorities go after one [P2P] system and another one pops up."

Whack-A-Mole indeed. I'm sure its only a matter of teim before eDonkey is replaced by another system allowing file-sharing to continue.

Chris is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest ebusiness news.