P2P usage going down in Canada
Written by Smaran on October 25, 2006The latest survey conducted for the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) is showing a major decrease in filesharing activity in Canada.
The survey was conducted for the CPCC by Reseau Circum, a French Canadian research firm.
According the research, only 14 percent of Canadians have downloaded music from P2P networks in the last 12 months. This is down from 15 percent last year. The percentage has been steadily decreasing over the past few years. It was at its height in 2002 and 2003 at 21 percent, then went down to 19 percent in 2004.
To dwell a wee bit longer in the stats, the demographic that had the highest filesharing activity was the young one. 39 percent of 12-17 year olds downloaded in the past 12 months, in comparison to 3 percent of those over the age of 46.
The RIAA’s Canadian arm, the CRIA commissioned a survey earlier this year that focused on the percentage of people that had ever used filesharing services at all. This number was clearly misleading as a whooping 69 percent of the 12-17 year olds and 64 percent of 18-25 year olds had tried using one or more of the many services at some point of time, but hadn’t necessarily kept using them. Therefore the CPCC’s figures seem to contradict the CRIA’s and quite clearly prove that filesharing is declining in Canada, even though certain parties would like to believe otherwise.
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Maybe due to the throttling? I hate it!!! HATE IT!! I wish they would stop…
i live in canada, sad really, to hear that canada has a low filesharing usage.
i have alot, ton’s for friends who use p2p programs, so i don’t what this is about..
but i hope that p2p-filesharing will increase :) right guys?
LOL, Im french Canadian, and I never Stop downloading as Crazy, I mean all my friends still doing it, the thing is, they don’t really talk’s about 25-40.. wich in my opinion are the one who started downloading 10 years ago and still Alive..!
Vive les statistiques..!
Je suis d’accord avec toi, mon ami. I still download…not as much as before though.
Mind you, after you do 100 gig’s per month for a year, you run out of stuff to downlaod!
I am Canadian! And do I ever download a lot! I dunno if it is just starting to get popular here I live or what, but every single person I know, (exlcuding my grandparents) pirates something or other be it music or movies.
I disagree with falafelboy though :P I’m near a 100gigs a month for the last year and I’m still going strong ;)
Um…. A one percent difference? Wouldn’t the margin of error surrounding this study be higher than 1 percent? Where is the study itself?
You bet.
People are too afraid of going to jail to say to a survey “yeah of course I download”. I would lie too :)
Then there’s the whole issue of a certain national-level Canadian ISP deciding that it’s going to snoop AND snitch about what it finds to ‘the autorities’ (read: CRIA). True North strong and free – provided that you bow politely whenever anyone asks you to.
However, the beer and wine are good. So I guess that evens things out.
You should note that this survey is not worth a lot. From what I saw, the survey asked people if they were filesharing. I would not be suprised if the reason why the percentage is low is because most people don’t want to say out loud that they are doing filesharing. Also, the difference from the year before may simply the error margin of the survey.
No wonder Canadian traffic went down, those idiots took down Demonoid for us!
Lies, Damn lies and statistics…. There is absolutely no reason to give any credibility to a ’study’ or announcement by the likes of the CPCC or the CRIA…. They are both “Dinosaur” entity’s bound for the dust-(delete)-bin of digital history…. The age of the ‘Digital Gutenberg’ is at hand … They cannot turn back time and neither can their parent entities in the USA….. few of us will pity the sleazy ‘middle-men’ who have fed off of the public for so long.
This study is probably as accurate as random polls…
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comeon 14% is till high… Who would admit doing smthing against the law?
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