A few years ago, when a friend offered 15-year-old Evan Collins a compact disc of illegally downloaded music, Collins turned him down flat.
“Me and my parents used to download music for free,” said Collins, who lives in Bloomington, Minn. “But we decided it was like stealing from musicians. So I don’t take stolen music from friends, either.” But later that year, when Collins met a girl he liked, he made her a CD filled with songs by Linkin Park, the Blue Man Group and Eiffel 65. Why was his CD OK, while his friend’s was verboten? Because Collins paid for his music, he said.
“I think you’re allowed to make, like, two or three copies of a CD you bought and give them to friends,” said Collins. “It’s only once you make five copies, or copy a CD of stolen music, that it’s illegal.”
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
But Collins’ attitude — that copying purchased CDs or DVDs is legal, while copying stolen music or movies is a crime — is pervasive among young people between the ages of 12 and 24, according to the Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll.
Among the 12-to-17-year-olds who were polled, 69 percent said they believed it was legal to copy a CD from a friend who purchased the original. By comparison, only 21 percent said it was legal to copy a CD if a friend got the music for free. Similarly, 58 percent thought it was legal to copy a friend’s purchased DVD or videotape, but only 19 percent thought copying was legal if the movie wasn’t purchased.
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aaah so as long as *you* pay for the music its ok. but if others pay for you its not.
This I imagine will be the dumbest thing I will read today
“Actually attorneys say copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time?” When does something you BUY finally become yours? Apparently never and they wonder why people dont hassle buying music when they STILL get hassled even if they do buy it.
This is why studies are stupid and the mainstream media who publish them are brainless dupes.
20 to 1 I could write that study poll question 5 different ways and get five radically different results from that age group. I could also get different results depending on where I asked the question.
Lame… What was the use of that?
? this is retarded!
dear friends and kids and goverment rats., u all copy all u want,if come into u computer(is u computer u pay for it,u pay tax on it,u pay ,tax on u light,u pay tax on u fone,u pay tax on u cd hell u pay tax for everything to use the damn thing)so any thing comes to u computer is invading u private life and u as a free person ,can reyect,accept,listen,copy or burn any thing that appears on u computer screen and if u want to give it a way,lease it or sell it do it .it cost time and money includding taxes ,to copy a damn song that maybe later u dont want it.so beat it.,.u dont want me to copy?? dont post nothing on the web..got it