Bittorrent, which is a very well-known company for introducing a peer-to-peer protocol, says that Netflix being responsible for about 33% of US download traffic during peak hours is not something to be really proud of.

A report published by Sandvine shows that Netflix occupies about 33 % of download traffic during peak hours, YouTube an 18% and Bit Torrent 4 %.

Mainly because of its peer-to-peer characteristic, Bittorrent protocol has a comparatively larger share in the upstream traffic as almost all the files that are downloaded using Bittorrent are downloaded not from a main server but from another person’s computer. Though in the total download and upload data, Netflix is still the biggest user of traffic by quite a margin.

Bittorrent claims that this data reflects the lack of efficiency of the site’s service but not the dominion of Netflix.

"Netflix is hogging all of the bandwidth in North America," Mr. Matt Mason, Vice President of Bittorrent, told The Guardian. "This is a problem for Netflix. They're talking about [the super-high-definition TV format] 4K, but they're crushing the network already; if they deliver 4K they're going to completely grind it to a halt. All the ISPs are pissed at Netflix, because this is an unsustainable situation.”

"It's always been funny to us that Netflix go 'oh, yeah, look, we're beating Bittorrent' – meaning 'we're beating piracy'. They're not beating piracy. It's definitely a good thing that there's a legitimate service that's available, and I'm sure that's helping on some level."

In a reply to the reports that predicted that Bittorrent has abolished from the current scenario Mason told "This bandwidth thing is a complete red herring, and I think Netflix knows that. I'm also disappointed more analysts don't understand."

Mr.Mason says that Net Flis and Bittorrent teaming up wold be beneficial for both the companies. "Netflix traffic is hogging the network, [whereas] Bittorrent traffic voluntarily gives way to Skype, Netflix, everything else, because we saw that as the right thing to do. We're being good citizens on the internet. There's so many ways you could do Netflix better using Bittorrent, and the reason they haven't done it is because, in their initial dealings with Hollywood, Bittorrent was the pariah they had to beat. We're the straw-man of the internet. If you go on their website right now, in the jobs section, they're hiring a bunch of peer-to-peer engineers. They need Bittorrent, and we'd be happy to work with them, but all this stuff about them beating us is, quite frankly, bullshit. They're not beating us, we're getting out of everybody's way because it's the right thing to do.” Mr. Mason concluded.