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Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime
An anonymous reader writes "An article in the Orlando Sentinel reports on a poll done by the LA Times and Bloomberg. The informal study looked at teenager attitudes towards copying media. Only 31 percent said they thought it was illegal to copy a CD borrowed from a friend who had purchased it. Attitudes about ill-gotten media were less clear, and the article admits than even the legal system is slightly fuzzy on this issue." From the article: "Among teens aged 12 to 17 who were polled, 69 percent said they thought it was legal to copy a CD from a friend who purchased the original. By comparison, only 21 percent said it was legal to copy a CD if a friend got the music for free. Similarly, 58 percent thought it was legal to copy a friend's purchased DVD or videotape, but only 19 percent thought copying was legal if the movie wasn't purchased. Those figures are a big problem for the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, both of which have spent millions of dollars to deter copying of any kind. The music industry now considers so-called 'schoolyard' piracy -- copies of physical discs given to friends and classmates -- a greater threat than illegal peer-to-peer downloading, according to the RIAA."
in a related study, 95% of teenagers said they don't care if its legal, they want their goddamn Kanye West CD.
"Just because you're eloquent doesn't mean you aren't a fucking crackpot." -Wavebreak
In further news, the RIAA and MPAA have recently decided that everything is, in fact, a greater threat than everything else. "We intend to launch our initial wave of lawsuits against everything very soon," said industry spokesman Blodug Fossergrim. "Everything else will have to wait."
It's only natural for a kid to share their favorite music with their friends. The only part of this that should be criminal is the quality of the music being exchanged in these swaps.
That's the most bazaar line of reasoning I've ever heard.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Yes, I bought my reasoning at a street market...
I bought the two-pack: Kid's friend bought it, copying it is ok. Kid's friend stole it, copying it not so ok. That's what the numbers say.
Tomorrow's headline: Teenagers are not literate in copyright laws! There was the same response as this to the article about evolution illiteracy. The average person simply doesn't know.
Doesn't know, and doesn't care... Apathetic and amoral are the values that prevail today. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you. But I would've preferred to hear that Teens don't think copying CD's is illegal in a defiant stand against the RIAA, "THE RIAA CAN SUCK ON THESE", said one young man as he pointed his two index fingers to the sky, instead of I want to listen to MY Justin Timberlake/Ciara/Fergie and nobody's gonna stop me...
**AA needs to just sue the f**k out of the kids. I mean, it's been an effective tactic so far...
Wow, did copyright infringement run over your dog or something?
Then the RIAA exec walks up to the kid, empties his pockets and stuffs the valuables and cash into his own. He then tosses the major artist a couple coins. Finally he spits on the kid and says to him "let that be a lesson to ya" in a mafioso voice.
This is fun, I think I'll start casting for my own PSA
"how can they call it a MINE if everything here is THEIRS?!?!" -Straight Jacket
Don't copy that floppy!
I fear the Y2038 bug
RIAA doesn't really care if you steal or not...
It is nice to know that 69% knows that copying a CD s not theft. So how are we going to explain to the other 31% the same.
Copying a CD is not illegal. I have plenty of Linux CD's I copy, give away or let people make a copy. I still need to figure out where I can get a refund of the extra tax I pay.
It might be illegal to copy the content on it, but that will differ from case to case. Yet that is something different alltogether.
Also this discussion as getting a bit stale. I remeber that I copied music on casette to give copies away, to play in the car or to just be able to listen to only those few numbers I wanted to hear in the order I wanted to hear them.
So what do you do when you have say 100 CD's and only want to listen to only one number from each? I turn those into MP3's and listen to them in the car that way.
These people want me to change the CD each and every time, making me a danger on the road where I might kill children. Please **AA, think of the children!
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.
Perhaps you should quit the music industry and try your hand at selling coffee?
...where 93% of those polled believe it is a crime to actually purchase a CD and the remaining 7% just responded "Micro$oft suxors".