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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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.
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