The first ever study of UK-based downloading of music using BitTorrent has just been published.
They used ever-so-clever tips and techniques to figure out what people were making available on the file-sharing networks, over the 3/4 million artists that they track.
Isle of Wight
Alongside the headlines that 345 million songs had been shared over the UK and 43 million album and single releases were downloaded during the first half of 2012, come the figures about the Isle of Wight.
Obviously the number of people sharing music on the Island pales into insignificance, when London has over 4.5 million downloads in the first six months of 2012, but they are interesting.
More sophisticated taste
Frankly, the research shows the Island to have more sophisticated taste than most of the UK – by their reckoning Louis Armstrong is shared the most in Ryde.
If you want to know more about the process, there are details in the document embedded below.
