US teens love p2p music, movies
p2p news / p2pnet: Another major study has given the lie to Organized Music claims that its sue ‘em all anti-p2p campaign is deterring people, teenagers in particular, from using the p2p networks to share with each other.
OM, in the shape of EMI Group (UK), Warner Music (US), Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) and Vivendi Universal (France), is trying to sue customers, including thousands of schoolchildren, into buying product.
However, “Teens continue to actively download music and video from the internet and have used multiple sources to get their files,” says a new report. “Those who get music files online believe it is unrealistic to expect people to self-regulate and avoid free downloading and file-sharing altogether.”
Fifty-one percent of online teens say they download music files from the internet compared with 18% of online adults who were surveyed at the end of 2004, says a Pew Internet and American Life Project report.
Roughly a third of those teens (31%) who don’t currently download music files say they used to but, “When projected on to the total population of online teens, this suggests that the total universe of teens with music downloading experience – those who are current or former downloaders – is about 66% of teen internet users,” says Pew, going on:
“Nearly one-third (31%) of online teens say they currently download video files to their computer so they can play them at any time, while just 14% of online adults reported the same at the end of 2004.
“Older teen boys with broadband connections at home are the most likely to say they get music and video files online.”
Of 622 teens in the survey who said they’d tried music downloading, “75% agree with the statement that, ‘Music downloading and file-sharing is so easy to do, it’s unrealistic to expect people not to do it’,” states Pew, going on:
“Just 23% disagreed with this statement. About half of them think free downloading and file-sharing copyrighted content without permission is generally wrong, yet roughly the same number say they do not care about the copyright on the music files that they download.”
Equal numbers of “music downloading teens” say (Pew uses the suggestive word ‘admit’) they use the p2p networks (30%) and online music services (30%) to get their music files.
“However, three times as many teens report peer-to-peer use in the past (28%) as those who report use of paid services in the past (9%),” adds the study.
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See:-
Pew Internet and American Life Project - Teen Content Creators and Consumers, November 2, 2005
