I think there's an awareness problem as well. Many teens don't think of legally downloading music as pirating music is what they've always done. It's not even necessarily thought of as wrong; after all, you can listen to the tunes on the radio.
About the only "well-known" services is iTunes' music shop, which has a fairly low reputation, and is fairly useless to anyone not using an iPod.
Why not ban kids from going outside? Let's make sure they can't open their text books either because some bad author might have written some rude words!
You can protect kids as much as you want, but they'll still have to deal with it at some stage.
I was a kid on the 'net. Fortunatly I was more into the technical side of the net than chatrooms, but my point is that you'd be blocking most of the potential good that kids get out of the internet too.
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I think there's an awareness problem as well. Many teens don't think of legally downloading music as pirating music is what they've always done. It's not even necessarily thought of as wrong; after all, you can listen to the tunes on the radio. About the only "well-known" services is iTunes' music shop, which has a fairly low reputation, and is fairly useless to anyone not using an iPod.
Why not ban kids from going outside? Let's make sure they can't open their text books either because some bad author might have written some rude words!
You can protect kids as much as you want, but they'll still have to deal with it at some stage.
I was a kid on the 'net. Fortunatly I was more into the technical side of the net than chatrooms, but my point is that you'd be blocking most of the potential good that kids get out of the internet too.
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