spacegrass used our news submit to tell us that according to a poll only 27% of American teenagers believe that people who download (or share) music files without artist or label permission are breaking the law:
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Curiously, while the majority of teenagers clearly believe there's little wrong morally or legally with sharing digital music, 58% of them think Web sites that facilitate the activity are breaking the law. With movies, it's even higher: 60.8%. The better news, from the perspective of the music and film industries, is that older Internet users are a bit more sympathetic to copyright holders. Of online adults 35-54, for example, 55% thought it wrong to download or watch a movie without permission, and 48% felt similarly about music. That, of course, should come as no surprise because the study also determined that teenagers engage in illegal file-sharing more so than do adults. |
The study was performed by the firm E-Poll and surveyed 1.075 Internet users 13 years of age or older. What do you think about the results of this poll? An expected result or not?
Source: Netscape News
