Stanford students love Apple
p2pnet.net News:- Every year students at Stanford University in the US complete a residence evaluation and this year 3,048 – split approximatey evenly between men and women – responded. They represented about 46% of all undergrads.
Seventy-eight percent have a Windows PC desktop or laptop , 22% have a Mac desktop or laptop and 2% have a Unix or Linux computer.
And 53% have a portable music player.
To digress, the Big Music cartel spends millions of dollars annually to make sure schools at all levels across the US are ‘educated’ into the ways of the music business with ‘copyright’ issues to the fore.
Substantial amounts of time and effort go into (are wasted on?) these activities, and school resources are used unsparingly.
This means senior staff become, in effect, unpaid sales personnel and record industry cops, supported by school fees. And the teaching institutions themselves become marketing and PR outlets touting ‘services’ provided by the likes of Napster II and Apple to “protect” students from being sued – by the cartel-owned RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
With this in mind, it’s not surprising to find this year’s Stanford survey included questions on, “students’ awareness of copyright issues”.
Eighty-three percent said they were somewhat to very familiar with copyright laws and policies and the top five ways in which students “learned about these laws and policies” are:
- Was already exposed to these issues before I came to Stanford (57%)
- Read email about copyright sent to the Stanford community by the Provost (44%)
[Would this be based on material supplied by the entertainment industry?]
- Heard about issues from my RCC (43%)
- Read summary of Stanford Computer and Network Usage Policy when registering my computer (32%)
- Read about issues in the Stanford Daily (22%)
The survey doesn’t explain how music industry “copyright laws and policies” could possibly have any bearing on studies other than those centred on copyright issues in general.
In the meanwhile, the survey included questions on student use of digital music services and related technologies.
Of students who’d bought music from an “online music service” (approximately 25%), 92% had purchased music from iTunes and of the 53% of students who answered that they own a portable music player, 67% said they owned an Apple iPod.
Seventy-nine percent said they use iTunes in some way, with 49% answering that they both play and share music via iTunes Sharing.
When they were asked how many tracks had been bought from online music services, “responses were somewhat evenly distributed,” says the survey.
“Of those who purchased at least one track from an online music service, 31% answered 1 to 5 tracks, 14% answered 6 to 10 tracks, 19% answered 11 to 25 tracks, 14% answered 26 to 50 tracks, and 21% answered more than 50 tracks.
“Willingness to pay $20 per year to subscribe to a campus music service was also split with 31% answering definitely or probably not, 23% answering maybe, and 47% answering probably or definitely yes.”
But, “In general, more students felt that paying $20 per year for wireless networking in more residences was more important than subscribing to a campus music service or other technology priorities on campus (such as the availability of more multimedia equipment or a printing quota).”
The impression one gets from this survey is that music industry supplied and supported “services” rule at Stanford.
However, only “approximately 25%” had actually paid for the “services”.
Does this mean the remaining 75% are getting their music from other sources – ie, the p2p networks, home-ripped mp3s or ‘other’?
It would be interesting to learn if the bulk of Stanford students – 75% – simply aren’t interested in, and therefore don’t listen to, any form of music. But if that’s not the case, where do their music fixes come from?
In the meanwhile, the survey does show just how successful the music industry has been in subverting normal educational processes at Stanford and replacing them with its own bottom-line oriented “studies”.
Any Stanford students out there?
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See:-
used unsparingly – University p2p ‘report’, p2pnet, August 25, 2004
Stanford survey – Student Computing @ Stanford: Results from the Annual Residence Evaluation: 2004-2005: Undergraduate, Stanford, February 22, 2005
