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."

Comments

Re:Is it wrong?

[mapkinase]

Who modded this idiot parent up? Moderators are went insane.

Since when copying is a free speech???

Re:Cut. Try another scene.

[ScentCone]

Isn't it alarming that probably over half of all teenagers are criminals according to your legistlation?

Yes, but not in the way that you think. What's alarming is the prevailing sense of entitlement to someone else's work. The sense that if you like an artist enough, you can just make them your personal little entertainment slave by finding a way around the choice the artist has made about how to offer their work for sale.

There are places in Africa where most of the women in some villages have experienced rape. So, that makes it commonplace - no point having a law against it, then, since everyone does it, right? No. And I feel the same way about the creeping sense of entitlement that has turned kids into morally rudderless artist rapers that are getting a pass from people like you. It's a matter of principle, and there's a lot more at stake than whether or not a particular rock star makes another car payment in any given month - it's about recognizing (never mind whether you call it "infringement" or not) an act of deliberate theft when you see it... and recognizing that when you don't care if an entire generation of people grows up thinking that ripping off people they claim to respect is OK, then you're going to have a lot of other problems show up, as well.

Re:Hello idiots, copying a CD is NOT a crime

[DestroyAllZombies]

Sorry, this is a fact-free zone. Are you trying to stifle our creative expression? I know in my gut that what you said cannot be true. When I want something then I have a right to it. Wold you hang a man for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his paraplegic child? Thought so.