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STUDY: 38% of Swedish Men are File-Sharers

By soulxtc

Or 10% of entire population. According to a recent study, at the beginning of this year nearly 700,000 Swedes regularly used P2P file-sharing programs and services. It also noted that some 38% "More than a third of all men aged 16 to 24 used a P2P file-sharing program during the first quarter of 2008," said the report by Statistics Sweden, the government agency responsible for producing official statistics on Sweden. "Among all surveyed ages the corresponding proportion is approximately one out of 10," it added. Sweden, which has about nine million people, counted over 685,100 file-sharers during the first three months of the year, according to the study, which was based on a poll of 3,837 people between April 7 and June 9.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 26, 2008 (boomark / email).