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Pew Study: File Traders Don't Care About Copyright

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the related-study-finds-sugar-is-sweet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent poll by the Pew Internet and American Life Project focused on that portion of the file trading community that is over 18. The major finding is that two-thirds of all file traders in this age bracket are not concerned about violating copyright laws. This remained consistant even when they split up the respondents by sex, income, and race."

4 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No kidding, really? by willis · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Yeah, it's almost like "Never attribute to intelligence what you can attribute to selfishness" or something ;)

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    there is no thing
    what else could you want?
  2. Whoa!! by Tirel · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Copyright violators not interested in copyright?

    What are the chances??

  3. sign of the times? by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has there ever been such a (seemingly) general disrespect of copyright? Given that this is only recently become such an enormous societal issue, I don't think there are any statistics or numbers; but if there were, would they show anything different from what this survey concluded? I actually tend to think that this attitude has been somewhat widespread, but that technology brings it to the forefront.

  4. In other news... by zoeblade · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Most file traders don't care about copyright!



    In other news, most religious people believe in some sort of soul, and most prisoners have committed a crime.