>From Steinar H. Gunderson: >Do you have statistics on this? Virtually everybody I know >who could use a >web browser (which is quite common these days) could also use >a P2P app, and >the vast majority of those <30 seem to do.
There are at most 5 million file traders out there each day on the top two P2P networks, at least according to [1]. Let's be generous and multiply that number of users by 10, giving us say 50 million people who use file-trading apps in general. Obviously there are far more than 500 million media consumers in the Americas and Europe alone, based on demographics. Considering the number of CDs and DVDs sold legally each year, the number of music & movie consumers is probably far greater. The fact that so many people you know under the age of 30 use file-sharing networks is simply a reflection of the people you know. Here's a just-as-statistically-invalid counter-example: I'm just about 30, and live in a major US city. Of all the hundreds of people I know in my age bracket, only three (that I know about) trade files illegally. Many see it as morally questionable, while others just don't want to go through all that hassle to get free music. These people do buy CDs and DVDs, though. [1] http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10763 _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
