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48.6% of shared files is music, 27% is video

Music accounted for 48.6% of files shared online, compared with 62.
Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor

Music accounted for 48.6% of files shared online, compared with 62.5% in 2002. Video accounted for 27%, up from 25.2%. European countries are leading the way in movie downloading, with video accounting for 35.4% of files swapped by German users of Kazaa, compared to 23.7% by U.S. users. Web surfers based in Italy, Belgium, France, Norway, Britain, Finland and Poland also downloaded a higher percentage of movies than those in the United States.

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