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Over 1/3 of Pirate Bay users come from China

The infamous public torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has released some statistics this week that gives more insight into the location of its users.

One of the most surprising stats (full chart available after the story) is that over one-third of the Pirate Bay's traffic comes from China, where the government has banned the site. Japan and Spain generated the next highest traffic followed by the US.



Making China's numbers even more shocking is that China only accounts for one-sixth of the world's internet users. Japan, on the other hand, makes up 6.7 percent of Pirate Bay traffic while accounting for 6.2 percent of total Internet users.

In November, the site announced that they had smashed a new milestone, 25 million unique peers. It has been estimated that the site tracks over 50 percent of all BitTorrent users that are on at any point.

Full chart here:


Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 11 Feb 2009 16:09

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• 7 comments

• shummyr

  this is awesome

  11.2.2009 21:07 #1

• windsong

  Tell people not to do something, and they will do it all the faster. Just ask Adam and Eve :)

  11.2.2009 21:24 #2

• shummyr

  Originally posted by windsong: Tell people not to do something, and they will do it all the faster. Just ask Adam and Eve :)Got That Right

  11.2.2009 21:25 #3

• bangor09

  Originally posted by windsong: Tell people not to do something, and they will do it all the faster. Just ask Adam and Eve :)Amen! LOL!

  12.2.2009 03:16 #4

• borhan9

  Some very interesting stats stated here.

  12.2.2009 20:26 #5

• leady

  we go to cinemas, but cds and do downloads!

  16.2.2009 02:37 #6

• Mez

  I guess that is why there is so much Chinese anti-p2p activity. Only M$ has a bigger presence. I did not know PB was banned in China.

  17.2.2009 09:05 #7