70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP

Umpire writes "As the UK considers a three strikes policy to fight copyright infringement, a new survey reports that 70% of UK broadband users would stop using P2P if they received a warning from their ISP. 'Wiggin commissioned the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey, which found that 70 percent of all people polled said they would stop illegally sharing files if their ISP notified them in some way that it had detected the practice. When broken down by age group, an unexpected trend emerges: teenagers are generally more likely to change their behavior than older Internet users.'"

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Re:No surprise

[Omestes]

Don't usually respond to ACs, so feel lucky:

99% of people downloading copyrighted stuff know its illegal, and also realize its wrong, and that they should be paying the content creators. The temptation of easy free stuff is just too great for some people.

Doubtful, I think there is a large minority here on /. who think it is their ethical obligation to NOT buy things from the RIAA, thus piracy is acceptable to them. Some people think of it as a peaceful protest, or act of civil disobedience in protest of a flawed, tyrannical, and oppressive business model. Granted they might know it is illegal, but not wrong.

Content producers SHOULD be paid, but the record labels try not to do it either. Other business models would work better, some think.

To be pedantic, you do realize that EVERYTHING is covered by copyright, including your comment, which I just downloaded, right?

People should be warned, and then we can go back to a normal, functioning market.

When a large portion of your potential customers are branded "illegal communist pirates", I would say that the market ISN'T functioning. When no one wants to be forced into your service, then YOU ARE WRONG, and your business model is wrong. When you need legislation to make you profitable, your dysfunctional.

I don't condemn or condone piracy, I see both sides of the issue. That said my previous paragraph stands, and I think that the *AA's are broken, and deserve to die.