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: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: Europe
It cant be stopped so everyone else should adapt :P Sharing information is the basic need of a human, thats how we evolved. Its almost impossible to resist. Here we dont have much control over file sharing. A few sites have been shut down for sharing local band music, but it didnt have much effect. Foreign files (from US/J...
Gender: Male
Age: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: Europe
Im from Czech Republic. I like original TV shows and movies more than dubbed ones in our TV. Id like to use some (paid) media service, but neither iTunes or hulu (or... you name it) is not available here. Thats mostly the reason Im limited to some (illegal) file-sharing.
Gender: Male
Age: 37 - 45 years old
Continent: Europe
I pay for media services when available (for music I used Rhapsody before, now Spotify Premium, never file share). Would do the same for movies if it was available (new international movies, HD quality, in France, when released), and stop file-sharing. Waiting for movie industry to adapt.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 - 36 years old
Continent: North America
I think that until market options can match the ease and comprehensiveness of P2P sources, there will always be a demand for those networks (although how they will evolve and change is obviously something I cant predict). I do watch a lot of TV on Netflix in Canada and buy all music from iTunes (which I didnt used to do wh...
Gender: Male
Age: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: Asia
Law is bullshit. Cause people will keep breaking it especially on the internet. People will have another way to share the files somehow if there law is in effect. In my country New Zealand, there will be a piracy law effecting from September, It is bull shit. We have the rights to do anything on the internet. They will be ...
Gender: Male
Age: 18 - 24 years old
Continent: Europe
i think the next big thing might be that sites like piratebay will be made obsolete
Gender: Male
Age: 37 - 45 years old
Continent: North America
its a good thing and it will never end no matter if you stop torrent sites there always is a way.....
Gender: Male
Age: 17 years and younger
Continent: Europe
With all the tries to stop file-sharing, some will eventually succeed. If they cannot shut down the actual uploaders or site-holders, they will put all the blame on the downloaders. Theres a large chance that you could eventually get arrested for illegaly downloading a song. Even though the downloaders didnt steal anythin...
Gender: Male
Age: 37 - 45 years old
Continent: Europe
Your questions on how often were badly phrased. I share less than once a month but the only options were More than once a month or Never. Also you asked for gender, male or female. Male and female are sexes, not genders. It’s a common mistake but gender either refers to nouns or socially constructed personalities. When ...