Report: FileSharing on the Rise

Web hosting services provider One.com has published a research on filesharing behavior (covering Europe) whose results show a growth of the phenomenon from 2010 to 2011. According to the study conducted from November 25 to December 9, 2011, four in five respondents said they use email to share photos, documents, presentations, music and videos with friends and family and a small percentage of merely seven satisfy their sharing needs by burning discs. It’s not really a surprise that the study found Swedes to be to most enthusiastic users of tablets and smartphones in their sharing of data (Sweden being one of the pioneering countries when it comes to filesharing); compared to them, the European average behavior relevant to mobile devices for file sharing is only one in seven respondents. There is, however, a surprise with regard to the percentage of the files shared by Europeans in 2010 and 2011 – here Swedes come last with 22 percent fewer files shared in 2011 compared to 2010. Overall, reportedly 82 percent of European respondents shared more files in 2011 than they did in 2010. Top of the chart are UK citizens with 92 percent followed by Belgians with 83 percent and Danish with 82 percent; similar to the Swedes, the Dutch shared fewer files in 2011(24 percent).

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Report: FileSharing on the Rise

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