This pie chart shows the ratio of people who use file-sharing sites. Although the category quantities only differentiate marginally, with just 20% separating the groups due to the quantity of information another set of quantitative research would need to be carried out on a larger scale to support the hypothesis that file-sharing is more common than not. However based on this data alone the majority of participants admitted to using file-sharing sites which shows that piracy is becoming a more easily accessible and acceptable part of modern culture. This is backed up by the fact that when those who answered yes to using F-S sites were asked do you feel any responsibility for the affect file sharing is having on the music industry only one answered yes this pie chart shows the complete results. When asked why they felt this way the majority of participants exclaimed that record companies and musicians gained too much profit from their music, these are some participant quotes ‘file-sharing stops the record companies from monopolising music.’ ‘People, who make too much money, make a little less.’ One participant even stated that if the companies were so bothered by file-sharing they would enforce legislation laws more and work to make piracy impossible instead of having lenient punishments.
This graph shows the most commonly listed file-sharing sites the questionnaire participants use.

One of the sites listed by the participants has recently been a feature of news after the owners were taken to court for allowing illegal downloads.

Pirate Bay was set up in 2003 by an anti copyright organisation pirate Bryan and has for the last five years been run by individuals. Although the site itself does not contain the copyrighted material it provides the user with links through which they can access it. Pirate Bay has an estimated 22 million users and dramatically contributes to the $18 billion that the film industry claims it loses to piracy every year. Pirate Bay has recently been sold to a Swedish company who say they are going to start charging people copyright costs for their music, after the previous owners were taken to court and given a year’s imprisonment and a million dollar fine for piracy.