p2pnet - rss feed: RIAA survey results
p2pnet.net news:- By way of an apology, I was expecting to be able to post the data from p2pnet’s Sultan of Spins RIAA survey today. But that’s not to be.
I’ve just learned I won’t, after all, be able to do that. However, I’ll be making the raw data and a .pdf (including a ton of intriguing comments from respondents : ) publicly available on Saturday. The survey itself will close on Friday.
BUT - this has been interesting and informative, to put it mildy, and p2pnet will be running regular surveys from now on, thanks to Canada’s FreeSurveysOnline, provided by MAP Business Solutions, Visual FoxPro and SQL application specialists.
MAP’s Mark Letheren is working on a way to share forthcoming p2pnet surveys online in real time so you’ll be able to see data accumulate. And they’ll be posted under Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.5 Canada license.
Interestingly, AllofMP3.com, the Russian download site being hounded and harassed by the Bush administration, is among sites carrying a link to our Sultans of Spin survey.
Thanks, guys.
I’m planning to base the next survey on the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America). If you’ve got any ideas about questions, send them to p2pnet @ shaw.ca.
For now, a post with the results as of Saturday is still online here and will stay up until the weekend.
Cheers!
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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April 17th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Unless you are going to base your questions on Graham Henderson quotes, there isn’t a difference between the RIAA and the CRIA (same 4 major labels). It may also be useful to get someone involved in this project that does surveys, and knows how to best word questions as to not bias the answers. If you can get live statistics you should try to encourage people to not look at these statistics until after they have filled in the survey themselves — don’t show the ‘answers so far’ within the survey.
I’d like to have questions that allow us to learn more about the following:
- Peoples perception of Canadian law around the legality or illegality of unauthorized downloading, uploading, sharing of music, movies, and other types of works under copyright. This needs to separate these different types of activities (IE: downloading music, sharing music, downloading software, sharing software). I mention software and music as multimedia and software (productivity and entertainment) are distributed online far more than books.
- perceptions of why CRIA is not suing Canadians the same way that the RIAA is suing Americans.
- perceptions of why it is the recording industry, more than the motion picture industry or television studios, business or entertainment software, or other copyright holders that are suing their potential customers.
- where people get their ideas of the state of Canadian law from. For instance, past Heritage ministers have been quoted as saying that they want to give the industry the tools they need to sue. Does that mean that they don’t have any legal tools now?
- Does whether something is copyright infringing matter to people. Do they share because they believe it is non-infringing, and would they share only what they are authorized (by the law or by the copyright holder) to share if the law was made more clear? Your last survey just asked if people using filesharing software and not whether that sharing was thought to be infringing or not.
- Do people treat multimedia (music, movies, television) different than other types of works? Do they believe there should be a flat fee to share all the music they want, but think that books and software are fine the way they are sold today?
- What are peoples attitudes towards and understanding of DRM? As a technical person I know the inner-workings of DRM systems, but most people don’t — at least I perceive that most people don’t. (IE: they think DRM is something that is applied to content, rather than the reality where the bulk of what makes a DRM system is applied to the devices used to access the content). Do people believe it is (or should be) their right to remove DRM encoding from legally purchased content or remove DRM software from their own devices? Are there both good and bad features of a DRM system from the perspective of copyright holders and audiences?
- What are peoples attitudes towards and understanding of digital watermarking? Do they see any reason why they would want to remove watermarking from legally acquired files? Are there both good and bad features of digital watermarking from the perspective of copyright holders and audiences? (BTW: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/3884 )