Japanese File-Sharing Population Explodes
In 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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[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
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