Mainly cite fears of accidentally downloading a virus or spyware.
The Business Software Alliance(BSA) have released the results of a new survey which claims that illegal downloading of copyrighted works by youth ages 8 to 18 has dropped by 40% in the last 3 years.
In 2004 60% of youth reported illegally downloading copyrighted material, 43% in 2006, and now 36% in the year 2007.
When asked why they fear most about illegal downloading, 62% cited accidentally downloading a computer virus, 52% cited getting busted, 51% cited spyware, and 48% cited getting in trouble with parents. I guess todays youth has yet to learn the magic of BitTorrent and instead cling to KaZaA or similar networks.
“…while decreases in downloading are encouraging over recent years, youth are still taking too many risks online,” said Diane Smiroldo, vice president of public affairs for BSA.
I’d say using KaZaA is definitely a “risk,” wouldn’t you?
Other interesting survey results:
- 30% of youth admit to illegally downloading music, down from 32% in 2006, and a remarkable 53% in 2004.
- 8% now download movies illegally, down from 10% in 2006, and 17% in 2004.
Now to be honest the survey was conducted of 1,196 youths aged 8 to 18, with 506 of them ages 8 to 12. Am I getting too old to know, or is it really true that 8 year-olds are illegally downloading anything? Are they really PC savvy enough?
In any event, I think the main reason for the drop is parents being scared to death that their child might cause them to get slapped with a $5000 dollar settlement letter from the RIAA. With many parents already working 2 jobs as it is, who wants to have to deal with a lawsuit just because their son wants the new “Hanson” album?
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Bull crap.. Maybe because of online predators parents are blocking access to the web or that the main filesharers arent kids no more. Possibly RIAA lawsuits driven them off to other areas and they cant get a good number.
In my opinion this only proves that whatever position you happen to support you can find a statistical survey to prove it.
Im always leery of any studies as well that try to take a mere sampling of like 1200 people and extrapolate it to millions.
there is no way a survey like that proves anything .
30% ADMIT they are downloading . there are probably a lot more who download but don’t admit it .
also it’s easy to manipulate a young child . just say ” downloading is bad ” to them before they take the survey and most will say they don’t download .
a better way would be to see what most childeren are interested in to download and then check the actual download rates of those files . This may not be entirely acurate since adults might download files for their childeren .
….or they just all got cheap ass (2-4 gig for under 10 bucks) flash drives to trade stuff locally with the smarter ones avoiding these silly honeypots
popularity through piracy anyone?