British users squirrel £16 billion of content

UK COMPUTER USERS with broadband have a whopping £16 billion stored away in total on their PCs, according to a new study by Orange home broadband.

Music's the biggest culprit for most of the money on an average computer, with one in 20 downloaders apparently storing the equivalent of £500 worth of music on their 'puters. On average, each British Interwebnaught carried around £350 on their hard drives, with the Scots right in the North being the biggest downloaders of 'em all. Och aye.

20% of the UK's downloaders legally download music, while four percent download movies legally - software however is still the most popular when it comes to legal downloads, with 44% of the interweb population downloading away.

The study found that those legally downloading content grab a saving of around £4 per music album and £5.50 for each film downloaded.

Director of product management at Orange Home said on the matter that "the money to be saved through downloading rather than buying hard copies of movies and albums is extraordinary," with some torrent sites saving users an average of 100% on products. He went on to warn downloaders of download limits, saying that "those with a flavour for building their collections," and he did not specify what collections specifically, "should opt for unlimited broadband - otherwise they may find themselves cut short." µ