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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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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