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P2P Users More Likely to Cheat, Shoplift
prostoalex writes "New research report (sponsored by the recording industry, so should definitely be objective) suggests that those who download music online are also likely to cheat at schools/universities and to shoplift. From the Globe and Mail: 'Not only does music file-swapping harm artists, but it also points to an erosion of respect for intellectual property that threatens Canada's economy and values at the core of our society,' said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which commissioned the polls."
who the hell would shoplift when you can just download anything you really need?
A more in depth study also indicated that P2P users are also "big doody heads" and that the recording industry's dad could kick the P2P users dad's in a fight
...and that's all there is to it.
If file swappers are so profficient at all this theft and cheating, music execs must be pretty worried about their job-security.
SHOCKING, it was funded by the RIAA. What is next, blaming P2P users for causing terrorism...
Users who don't download music from p2p are more likely not to have internet..
Why wouldn't they just walk into a record shop and steal the CD?
Oh yeah, this article is BS..
Canadians between 12 and 24 years of age are responsible for 78 per cent of illegal music downloading, even though they make up only 21 per cent of the population, it says.
I'm sure this is supposed to say "are responsible for 78 per cent of illegal music downloading in Canada". I can't imagine that Canadians are responsible for the majority of illegal music downloading.
Bradley Holt
Can we get a study done on how likely RIAA Executives are to hurt small animals, steal from donation pots, and scowl at old ladies?
P2P is a gateway dru... crime. A crime of passion. One starts by downloading illegally, then on to harder stuff.
In related news, 42% of teenagers in the survey expressed an interest in illegally obtaining alcoholic beverages, while this figure dropped to 0% for those aged 21 and older. Thereby proving that downloading music causes under aged drinking. ;)
They probably kill puppies too...
"Downloading may turn you into a teenager" a scientist in lab coat commented. "We may have stumbled upon the fountain of youth".
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
Car theives around the world have a statistically higher probability of carrying a wire coat hanger on their persons. Wire coat hangers subsequently banned, chaos ensues as clothes around the world now heaped in piles on the floor. Crowbars told to watch themselves or face similar consequences.
When I was young, the US president Johnson told us that if the young men did not volunteer to 'serve' in Vietnam, then after the communists 'won', tens of thousands of Vietnamese would come here and take our jobs.
Well the young men refused to go to Vietnam, the communists 'won', and sure enough, tens of thousands of Vietnamese did come to the US and take our jobs.
I'll never doubt the government again.
Police Man: Billy, what made you take that pack of gum?
Billy: Kazaa made me do it! Oh yeah, and the Hot Coffee mod too!
10 days later we see Billy on a caribbean island sipping a Shirley Temple wearing a tee shirt saying "This trip paid for by the RIAA."
Parents, don't let your children grow up to be statisticians. They help to turn out spurious crap reports like this.
"It's difficult to meditate on amphetamines." - Joe Walsh
Do you realize that in addition to P2P-ing music, why, there are studies underway to P2P video, software, news, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Well everyone I know who robs banks for a drives very fast while leaving the scene. So I really hope auto manufacturers address this problem and stop making fast cars. These fast cars are costing the FDIC millions. Hell, there should be a "bank robbery fine" on all speeding tickets worth 4 or more points. That'll teach those speeders to stop robbing banks.
In related news, users of Microsoft Windows found to use excessive foul language.
Is this was gets written when they type for long enough?
Since "Canadians between 12 and 24 years of age are responsible for 78 per cent of illegal music downloading" (source) and "95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25" (source), P2P sharing leads to anorexia. QED.
Oh come on. They've got to pay for the ice cream somehow.
I really need to get new glasses.
Sure, it was a great theory all around. Gun-toting Commies would have ended up on American shores. After all, it's so easy to invade America. Those oceans aren't much of a barrier. And the US Military? Don't even get me started on them. How can they possibly defend so much coastline?
Speaking of which, the towelheads could be landing at South Carolina as we speak here. Quick, let's bomb all the Middle East to ever preclude that from happening. After all, America can't ever be defended, so that's the best justification for being completely offensive.
By the way, all that was sarcasm.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
Nearly 27% of younger people surveyed by the RIAA would consider cheating on exams, leading to belief that answering RIAA surveys leads to cheating on exams and the moral decay of our society.
“New Environics studies show that 100% of all smokers die.”
Has the RIAA commissioned a study to see if young people are more likely to hijack ocean-going vessels? After all, piracy is piracy.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
and the instructor is usually quite interested in hearing about this kind of academic fraud.
Yeah, he'll make sure the culprits are automatically transferred to the MBA program.
No No No! You can't say that! You should be saying this:
What they are implying is that being Canadian causes people to have poor moral standards... Now who can argue with that?
Did you ever see "conspiracy theory"?
Yeah I downloaded the soundtrack after I got done shoplifting the DVD. And I didn't report it on my taxes either...
I was quoted out of context in my autobiography...
I was just thinking the same thing, so I guess we should conclude that we should never trust Canadians ages 18-29. I never trusted them anyway. :)
Actually, I first read the post as PSP Users More Likely to Cheat, Shoplift. I was really starting to wonder. Actually, I read it 4x, and didn't catch the error until reading a few comments. Darn those Canadian PSP users, the hosers!
Smoke user more likely to be pyromaniacs!
:D
Burn the witch!
Arrr! Ye be handin' o'er those mp3 cds ye scurvy swag!
Would you also be inclined to believe copyright holders drink harder and do more cocaine? After all, look at musicians. Don't even get me started on Roman Polanski.
I find that piracy reference offensive. I am a Space Pirate and a member in good standing of the Pirate's Union. Calling stealing songs off the Internet as piracy, gives us pirates a bad name. Call it a five finger discount or something else.
I don't hijack, I commandeer, I don't steal, I borrow, I don't loot, I find. Sometimes I have to pursaude people with a sword or gun, but they actually give me things after I threaten their lives.
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And of cource, greedy CEO's are more likely to eat the brains of small children...because....I said so.