Japanese P2P Survey

[GhostShip]

It seems that WinMX And the variant Winny are still the dominant forces in the Japanese P2P world 

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1249

Departing from the unspoken norm, the RIJA has released a study indicating that file-sharing participation in Japan has substantially increased over last year.
You've read correctly. They're not saying piracy has been "contained" or the P2P population is flat. In fact, the RIJA's study indicates the file-sharing's population in Japan has increased from 1.3 million (2005) 1.8 million (2006) individuals, representing 3.5% of Japan's Internet population.

Perhaps most intriguing from the study, the Winny software remains the most popular file-sharing application with 33.3% usage. WinMX also remains an important aspect of file-sharing life in Japan, as WinMX is used by 24.5% of those queried. Limewire has also made headway into the Japanese population, as 19.8% have found this application useful. BitTorrent remains largely a North American phenomenon, as Digital World Toyko reports that less than 6% of Japanese file-sharers use this protocol.

Its nice to see that WinMx is still popular for folks in Japan and other countries due to its support for double byte languages, this is one of the reasons it has proved so popular with the community of users who are able to use the client seamlessly in their own language and swap files globally, ???????? 

[KM]

i hope for your sake that the translator translated that japanese text correctly and you didn't just say something really offensive, hey wouldn't be the first time... lol

[SamSeeSam]

Well you have to see the chatroom lists for popularity of Winmx in Japan. There are always about 150-200 rooms avaiable there in Japanese

[KM]

I'd say more than that

no I'm not going to count them though...