If Germany is any indication, the movie and music industry's campaign against peer to peer filesharing isn't curbing the amount of peer to peer related traffic.

A new study finds that P2P in Germany is growing and evolving, "Depending on time of day, P2P traffic uses a share of 30% (daytime) and 70% (nighttime) of the overall Internet traffic in Germany. The absolute data volume has risen by 10% between June and October 2006. BitTorrent has surpassed eDonkey as the most popular file sharing network and causes more than half of all P2P traffic in Germany. Both networks generate over 95% of the P2P traffic and have nearly displaced previously popular networks such as Kazaa's FastTrack."

The study's findings come on the heels of the IFPI's renewed efforts to take filesharers to court around the globe. The IFPI announced last week that it had initiated 8,000 new filesharing lawsuits in seventeen countries.

[via P2P Blog]