The largest database of file-sharing demographics ever!

The Survey Bay is a searchable database containing responses from 75.000 users from the global file-sharing mega-site The Pirate Bay, including demographics, information about their p2p habits and thoughts about the future of file-sharing.

The data is released in cooperation with Torrentfreak and free to search and use for all! Read it, use it, share it - and let us know the results! We are very eager to see what can be made with all this data.

Måns Svensson, Stefan Larsson and Marcin de Kaminski
of the Cybernorms Research Group at Lund University Internet Institute, Sweden

Random answers

Gender: Male
Age: 30 - 36 years old
Continent: Asia
nice..thanks
Gender: Male
Age: 25 - 29 years old
Continent: Asia
Things that contribute to file sharing: 1) Late releases of movies and tv shows in our part of world 2) Non availability of free streaming services for our country 3) High cost of video games/ books / music - the digital version should be dirt cheap so that no one cares on spending.
Gender: Male
Age: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: Europe
The netherlands are going to filter the piratebay, but im pretty sure they cant stop piracy. And, if so im not going to buy an CD if i cant download it. There is YouTube, grooveshark etc. so why buy it? I sponsor good artists by going to there gigs and buying there t-shirts. i think that is enough.
Gender: Male
Age: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: North America
Being anonymous is important to me. I would hate to see an end the TPB.
Gender: Male
Age: 25 - 29 years old
Continent: Europe
I live in the Netherlands and our government just proposed a law which would make downloading copyrighted material illegal (which it isnt at the moment). I have a strong feeling that although filesharing will continue to exist large parts of it will stop to exist due to adaptations by the market in the form of limitless mu...
Gender: Male
Age: 25 - 29 years old
Continent: Europe
Fuck the law.
Gender: Male
Age: 25 - 29 years old
Continent: Europe
File-sharing is a powerful tool for those who want to reach a large forum and have an impact with written, filmed or recorded material without interference from government or commercial interrests. Hopefully the file-sharing community will develope morals that allow creators of music, film, games etc to receive compensatio...
Gender: Male
Age: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: Europe
Its not bad, people rarely are arrested for sharing(but it happens). Now, the goverment is going to push new act that will make it easier for them to spy internet users, we will see... From Poland with love...
Gender: Male
Age: 25 - 29 years old
Continent: North America
I only get, not give. I would give but feel more pressure or prosecution for contributing (seeding.)