Spaniards top the filesharing league in Europe
We can’t say why, but Spain is apparently the European leader in terms of filesharing and illegal music downloads. We would have thought that Sweden would have topped the filesharing tree, but apparently the award goes to the Spaniards.
In 2007, 1.2 billion illegal music downloads were procured through filesharing programs like Limewire and Ares. This increase in shady music downloads has gone up from just 180 million in 2003.
According to the European Interactive Advertising Assn, 58% of all Spanish Internet users downloaded music illegally in 2006 compared to a 37% average across Europe.
With these kinds of figures, it’s clear that filesharing isn’t something that is going to stopped any time soon — not unless more than half of all Internet users are going to be targeted.
After email, surfing and chatting, getting free music downloads illegally is the fourth most common Internet activity that Spaniards partake in. Good on the Spaniards.
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Posted on 1 February 2008 by mike in Filesharing