China's disarming PPStream mascot

While the West's BitTorrent is responsible for anywhere from 30 to 50 percent of all traffic, file sharing is just as big in the East.

In Japan, hundreds of thousands share files over encrypted darknets, according to NewTeeVee, while China is the current kind of P2P television.

And in Korea, file sharing is a more commercial affair. They had their Napster case with Soribada, and when that got shut down, users flocked to online storage providers like LG's Webhard.com. Due to US free trade agreements, these commercial sites are again stirring water with the government.

While Korea is commercial, Japan's P2P culture is more underground. The most popular is Winny, a derivation of WinMX. Though the file sharing platform's creator got charged with copyright infringement, there are still 450,000 users on Winny at any given time.

Finally, though it's assumed that much-hyped services like Joost and Babelgum are the top dogs of streaming TV, China has had P2P streaming video services for years - and they actually work well. Chinese services like PPStream and Sopcast are not only thriving; they're securing million-dollar funding from big-time investors like Sequoia and Highland Capital.