Examining the Use of Peer-to-Peer Networks from an Activity Perspective

The Internet: An (other) agent that disseminates Japanese 'soft power' resources

“…Such claims should not be viewed as exaggerative because of the popularity and capability of these file-sharing systems. According to the research of De Boever and De Grooff (2010), the majority of content downloaded through BitTorrent is entertainmentnamely, video content (57%) and music content (35%) (see Figure 1). De Boever and De Grooff conclude that 'the bittorent network is mainly used to download large files such as movies, TV series and entire music albums ' (2010).…”