Legal file-sharing in Japan
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!
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