世論 What Japan Thinks

I’ve covered the darker side of file-sharing through P2P software a few times on this blog, but this is the first time for me to look at file forwarding services, a survey conducted by iBridge Research Plus and reported on by japan.internet.com.

Demographics

On the 6th of April 2009 300 member of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.7% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their twenties, 33.7% in their thirties, 32.3% in their forties, 13.0% in their fifties, and 4.3% in their sixties.

I used to use XDrive for a bit, but recently I’ve had no reason to transfer a large amount of data, although if I did I’d probably just upload it to this site and pass the URL across. Our company has an internal system for large file sharing via email, but it is quirky to say the least and seems more like… ahh, I’m very tired and in rather poor humour tonight so I’d better not finish that thought just in case my boss is reading.

Looking a Q1SQ1 and Q1SQ3, 24 people have used free file forwarding services for sending files to people, but 38 people have used free file forwarding services for any purpose. Sadly there is no information about what the other 14 people were doing with such services.

I’ve never heard of any of the Japanese services before!

Research results

Q1: Have you ever sent a large movie file, etc, to friends or family? (Sample size=300)

Yes (to SQs)	64.7%
No	35.3%

Q1SQ1: How have you sent large movie files, etc, to friends or family? (Sample size=194, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Attach the file to email	188	96.9%
Use a free file forwarding service	24	12.4%
Use FTP	11	5.7%
Use a paid file forwarding service	0	0.0%
Other	10	5.2%

Q1SQ2: Which of the following Japanese market free file forwarding services do you know? (Sample size=194, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
宅ファイル便, Taku-file-bin	37	19.1%
SkyDrive (Windows Live)	15	7.7%
デーω, Data-bin	15	7.7%
おくりん坊, Okurinbo	7	3.6%
filebank	6	3.1%
firestorage	6	3.1%
quanp	6	3.1%
FileTruck	3	1.5%
かしきんこ, Kashikinko	3	1.5%
storage.digital-write	2	1.0%
STOC.AS	1	0.5%
Other	6	3.1%
None of the above (to end)	133	68.6%

Q1SQ3: Which of the following Japanese market free file forwarding services have you used? (Sample size=61, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Taku-file-bin	20	32.8%
Data-bin	6	9.8%
SkyDrive (Windows Live)	4	6.6%
filebank	3	4.9%
Okurinbo	2	3.3%
FileTruck	1	1.6%
firestorage	1	1.6%
quanp	1	1.6%
STOC.AS	0	0.0%
storage.digital-write	0	0.0%
Kashikinko	0	0.0%
Other	7	11.5%
None of the above	23	37.7%