A new report from GfK, commissioned by German IT and telecoms industry body Bitkom appears to claim that file-sharing is falling there. Specifically, it says it’s less popular among 10-19 year-olds than 20-39 year-olds. ZeroPaid (working off a Google translation) says the study claims that sending out warning letters is the reason for the decline. We wonder if the findings only focus on P2P file-sharing though – if so, an increase in usage for other kinds of service (Rapidshare for example) could be part of it. We’ve provided a link to the German-language study below. Link
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