Every day 2.8 million Swedes violate copyright law

According to a recent study conducted by IFPI, about 40% of Swedes aged 15 and 74 illegally exchange files every day. Conducted using an online survey, the study showed that the active users of peer-to-peer networks are becoming more and more, and today this figure is 2.8 million (steady growth compared with previous studies).

Without a doubt, Sweden is one of the most actively using p2p-technology countries of the world. The constant troubles surrounding Pirate Bay and other similar resources, together with the tremendous success of the Pirate Party, show that there is hardly any person in this country who knows nothing about file-sharing networks. The new study showed the penetration rate of p2p technologies in Sweden, a country with a population of 9.2 million people.
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The IFPI report claims that 40% of Swedes are between the ages of 15 and 74, each day participating in illegal file sharing. According to the head of IFPI, Louis Werner, the figure is “very big”, but not surprising.

40% of this population is about 2.8 million people. This figure could be even greater if the IFPI included Swedes under the age of 15 years in research.

Surprisingly good results are also due to the new method of collecting data used by IFPI. If previously such studies were carried out using telephone surveys, this time the Internet was used for this purpose.

The results do not even closely correspond to the results of a study conducted by SIFO under a contract with the TV channel Viasat: in their opinion, only 11% of Swedes illegally download copyrighted files.

By the way, today the Internet penetration rate in the country is 81%, for 9.2 million people there are 7.3 users of the World Wide Web. In Russia, this figure is 28%.

Translation: Talim