Tuesday 8 February 2011

Collectively, porn and other films make up 71% of illegally shared files



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"Envisional’s researchers looked through the 10,000 most popular files being managed by the PublicBT BitTorrent tracker and broke it down by type. Pornography was, err, on top, with films coming next in popularity. Music sits way down the list.
The percentage obviously depends on just where you place your cutoff. The Pirate Bay’s overall top 100, for instance, has 10 recent albums in its list (the rest is almost exclusively video content). Still, the disparity in the numbers are eye-popping; pirates want movies more than music, and by a significant margin."
Source:  Research by Envisional & NBC Universal, reported by Wired, 3rd February 2011
Full study (pdf) here

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