Comments on: RIAA survey results http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11980 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11980/comment-page-1#comment-136987 Reader's Write Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:58:38 +0000 #comment-136987 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 ) 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 )

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