Japanese File-Sharing Population Explodes
Written by enigmax on December 21, 2007In just over a year the number of internet users file-sharing in Japan has increased by a staggering 180%, says the results of an online survey. The average number of files downloaded has more than doubled.
According to a results of a survey out today, translated by Martyn Williams, the numbers of internet users in Japan sharing music, movies and software has increased dramatically to reach an all-time high.
The survey – carried out online and financed and operated by a trio of industry organizations, similar to their well-known US counterparts – RIAJ (music), the Japanese MPAA and ACC (software) – concluded that the number of internet users sharing authorized media climbed from 3.5 per cent in June 2006, to 9.6 per cent by September 2007, a near 180% increase.
The numbers of files downloaded increased by a large amount too. June 2006 saw an average of 194 files downloaded per user which increased to 481 by September this year. Audio files topped the download charts with 211 per user with video coming in next with 183. People downloaded an average of 43 images, 33 documents and 14 pieces of software.
The survey found that the favorite P2P sharing application in Japan is still Winny with 27 percent. LimeWire, which is very popular in the West took 18.8 per cent of the vote with WinMX sitting at 15 per cent.
BitTorrent, which is incredibly popular all over the world with tens of millions of users, ranked just 6th with 7.4 per cent.
Japan hit the file-sharing news headlines earlier this year when a bizarre virus on the Winny network attacked files and displayed strange messages.
TorrentFreak looks forward to being able to report a dramatic growth in Japanese BitTorrent users next year.
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Winny, huh? I have heard of it, but don’t know much about it.
Yeah same here, I might try since my computer can display japanese text accurately and I have a little background in Japanese. Look interesting for sure since Japan has always been low in the file-sharing world because of the intense penalties .
Does there exist an english translation of Winny?
As I understand it, Japan has really fast internet within the country, but not so good links to the rest of the world. It makes sense that they’d want to use their own filesharing software and share within Japan only.
WinMX? I thought it was taken down (at least the official servers).
Heheh, you see the cats out of the bag, file sharing is obviously well known, the only chance we have now is to spread to every single person we can. Music organizations are about to be crushed by our pooowwwaahhh!
on our tracker we have some nice japanese members, always good for multiTB uploads and 200 ratio
Some leaked information for you, demonoid will be returning shortly after the second week in January under a new name, memebers with a 0.50+ ratio will be notified via email and will get to keep there old accounts if they wish and the remaining people will have to register again.
[quote comment="244705"]As I understand it, Japan has really fast internet within the country, but not so good links to the rest of the world. It makes sense that they’d want to use their own filesharing software and share within Japan only.[/quote]
Not necessarily. I’ve noticed an increase in Japanese torrent users lately and they are always welcome on my client. I’ve been on multi-seed torrents many times where one single Japanese IP has such a fat pipe that they’re responsible for 80-90% of the entire download speed!
Think fios is fast? Second place every time to some of the Japanese speeds. Seems that Sweden and Japan seem to have the highest overall speed.
If you want to try japanese file-sharing, don’t go for winny
the encryption protocol has been cracked for a while now. More and more people are moving to After Dark (made by the same people who made winny)
And expect your upload bandwidth to be maxed out (at least 50 Kb/s per file shared) as this network is made to be efficient on a 10 Mbit network (the norm in Japan)
oh gees i remember winmx.
If you want Japanese language things, then Japanese file sharing networks are good. If you want other languages, then you shouldn’t waste your time. You also need a good amount of knowledge of Japanese language or the willpower to copy and paste into an autotranslator repeatedly as you attempt to find the files you want (even if your program of choice has English localization, you can’t get around this). I have the former, so no worries for me.
I taught 2 Japanese people where to go, and they’ve been using torrent ever since. It’s an idea that just spreads since it’s so beneficial to know how to download. The true information age has just begun.
I want to download some Japanese movies,does anybody kown the torrent site in japan?
[quote comment="244759"]Some leaked information for you, demonoid will be returning shortly after the second week in January under a new name, memebers with a 0.50+ ratio will be notified via email and will get to keep there old accounts if they wish and the remaining people will have to register again.[/quote]
OMG!OMG!, izzit true?!
phew…wad a relieve
[quote comment="244727"]WinMX? I thought it was taken down (at least the official servers).[/quote]
The official stuff has gone.
It works with a third-party plug-in which contacts new servers…
winmxworld.com
you can get winmx and the patch
you be suprized to find winmx is one of the file sharing programs without viruses and good files and chat room best p2p app i personaly think
[quote comment="244793"]More and more people are moving to After Dark (made by the same people who made winny)
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I think you mean Perfect Dark
[quote comment="245122"][quote comment="244759"]Some leaked information for you, demonoid will be returning shortly after the second week in January under a new name, memebers with a 0.50+ ratio will be notified via email and will get to keep there old accounts if they wish and the remaining people will have to register again.[/quote]
OMG!OMG!, izzit true?!
phew…wad a relieve[/quote]
THE DEMONOID RATIO DIDNT FUCKING WORK!!!
Jesus, there were about 85 trillion posts a day from ppl asking why their RATION hadnt updated, ALL the staff know it didnt work, WHY THE FUCK would they only email ppl by ratio level if it didnt work?
STFU n00b!!
My ration always worked!!!
I fondle dead kittens when I’m alone.
Perfect Dark was not mode by same person than Winny neither was Share (another japanese p2p). All of these are available in English.
[quote comment="245493"]STFU n00b!!
My ration always worked!!![/quote]
NO U! moron, it didn’t work 99% of the time for 99% of the people. and i was a member of demonoid for more than a year.
[quote comment="245493"]STFU n00b!!
My ration always worked!!![/quote]
NO U!. it didn’t work 99% of the time for 99% of the people. and i was a member of demonoid for more than a year.
[quote comment="245508"]Perfect Dark was not mode by same person than Winny neither was Share (another japanese p2p). All of these are available in English.[/quote]
bah, those japanese p2p networks must be full of scat and tentacle porn, not worth it, i’m gonna stick with torrents.
[quote comment="244759"]Some leaked information for you, demonoid will be returning shortly after the second week in January under a new name, memebers with a 0.50+ ratio will be notified via email and will get to keep there old accounts if they wish and the remaining people will have to register again.[/quote]
Yeah, you got a good case.
fucking idiots, the ratio never worked on demonoid so why the fuck would they e-mail members if they have a good ratio? go smoke some more crack. fuckers at TF are dumb as shit.
Can I has ration?
can i has ration too?
Please don’t tell that we are hiding in Vegas.
we’re all smoking crack round the back didn’t you know?
I broke my ration.
You’re not Jimmy Hoffa. Trust me, I know.
“Other popular applications include Limewire at 18.8 per cent, … Cabos at 13.1 per cent”
Do they not know that Limewire and Cabos are virtually the exact same program using the same code?
I noz thiz is not tru. I was drinking beer wit elvis n hes going to open nu domoniod after xmas !!!
i dont know why i read all these comments somtimes…at least some of it was relevant…..
See the Japs are all hard workin’ little bastards. If one of them doesn’t download at least 200 films a month he commits Hari Kari. “I am solly oh gleat and mighty pilate bay i have dishonored you with my sroppyness and now i will save my famirees honor ah-so”
Fuck you all
Merry fuckin’ xmas you bastards
neigh neigh whinny snort
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i never found a good japanese tracker, anyone know one?
They are insane. WinMX? -> undead
Winny? -> what is that?
LimeWire? -> *yuck*
What’s wrong with japanese internet users? Are they’re somehow cut off from the rest of the world?
[quote comment="244692"]Does there exist an english translation of Winny?[/quote]
http://www.geocities.com/winnyenglish/
Japan is still using ancient apps???
hahahahahaha
pitiful.
Some guy said that Perfect Dark (or After Dark, as he called it) was made by the same guy who wrote winny. That’s incorrect. The man who made winny is currently being prosecuted by the japanese police for writing it in the first place. He’s too high profile to be writing the program. Besides, Perfect Dark has totally different coding patterns than winny has.
to the above post:
WTF you expect from torrentfreak? facts? you got more chance of George bush being able to say nuclear.
In contrast to other places in the world, PC-like computers have not been very popular for home use. Video consoles and mobile phones are far more popular. Hobbies like “computing” were and still are more geekier than elsewhere. I think that kind of explains why Japan is behind when it comes to file-sharing. You can’t do that very efficiently with your video console or cell phone. Last but not least, Unicode-friendly file-sharing was not always around. BitTorrent has no such problem but some software and networks are often ASCII-centric. This isn’t always immediately obvious unless you look under the hood.
Japanese internet connections are fast… I have internet through KDDI and I get 100M up 100M down (supposedly) in reality I get about 30M down and 15M up but that is still plenty fast for me.
I downloaded some torrents the other day and left it going while I was shopping, came back 3 hours later and my ratios where all at 20+, I had uploaded about 40G in a few hours!
Winny is a big deal here in Japan, but only if you are after Japanese stuff, otherwise stick with torrents.
Japanese need to get on with sharing!
What’s wrong with these people?!@
We need their connection!
lol
yeah, we need their connection @@
banzai
I think “Share” is most popular p2p software in japan.
This software based on winny,
but encryption,anonymity and down speed are totaly improved.
DL/UP speed is 40M/18M though a general 100M internet connection is used.
When downloading very recent movie or image,DL speed is over 70M usually.
[quote comment="248900"]They are insane. WinMX? -> undead[/quote]
Couple years ago,WinMX was most popular p2p app in japan before winny was released.By the way, naming of Winn was came from WinMX(Win M→n X→y)
Anyway, in japan, file trading(not sharing) culture still exist.
Some users are runninng closed opennap compatible serrver and trading file of specific genre.
I think, This is a reason why the users of bittorrent is so lower than any other world , too.
[quote comment="245524"][quote comment="245493"]STFU n00b!!
My ration always worked!!![/quote]
NO U!. it didn’t work 99% of the time for 99% of the people. and i was a member of demonoid for more than a year.[/quote]
Wrong wrong wrong. It actually mostly worked all the time. Yes, sometimes it had hiccups and sometimes the rationes wouldn’t get applied for a day or two, but if you were around for a while, it evened out in the end. If you were that close to 0.5, you suck anyway, so you’ll get no sympathy from me.
The only time I had a problem with the ratio not working correctly, was when I was running Peer Guardian while torrenting. If a person donated $5.00 a month, Demonoid automatically gave you a 1.0 ratio score. There is no excuse for anyone not donating at least once in a while to Demonoid, and there is no excuse for anyone on Demonoid to not have at least a .5 ratio. Leechers can go cry somewhere else, I have no sympathy for them. They brought on their own problems.
[quote comment="244793"] More and more people are moving to After Dark (made by the same people who made winny))[/quote]
Been watching too much Bleach and listening to too much Asian Kung-Fu Generation? :p
For those of you who may or may not know about Winny.
There is an English Translation, But it will do you some good, But not much, Seeing as the filenames are in Japanese, but if you can provide Japanese filenames, You are in the good.
Another bad sideeffect is that you are being somewhat of a detriment to the network, Insofar as it is highly likely you don’t have the network capacity as what is available in Japan for domestic use, The minimum upload speed on Winny is 50k I do believe.
Winny itself hasn’t been cracked, The forum system however has.
After Dark and the networks that are like it, ‘Destined to succeed Winny’ type networks are not produced by the Winny dev team, They are made (mostly) by people on 2ch.
If you are looking for Something in Japanese, I would highly suggest eMule and still search in Japanese, Many Taiwanese and Chinese get files from Japan and then crossshare them on eMule.
Toodles.
its been downhill ever since…
i was 2.0+
400gb up
200gb down
on a 10mbit connect
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