Study: Unsupervised Internet Usage Leads to Piracy. Really?
This post was published 2 years 1 month 19 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Well, a study was done by the NPD group and while it claims teens are using paid download services, such as iTunes or Napster, pirate usage is still very high.
The research group estimates up to 70% of U.S. kids aged 9 – 14 download music in a given month. Almost half, or 49% use iTunes, while another 26% use Limewire. MySpace was listed as the third most popular site for sharing music, at 16%.
NPD Group blames parents for letting their children use the Web unsupervised as a major factor.
Give me a break! NPD blames lack of parental supervision in piracy. I don’t know about you but I know a ton of parents that use Limewire or other downloading sites to acquire their music. I’m sure AT&T will use this to bloster their argument that the internet should be filtered on the ISP level.
I supervise my father while he’s downloading songs…
@CLAMS
amen brother
Piracy is never going to end, the NPD should just well give up. Yea they can yell at companies that have open source p2p programs (viruswire, err limewire) that are mostly only used for downloading and uploading pirated content, but then there is the world of torrenting – good like with EVER trying to stop that.
I personally showed my kids around download wonderland…
I know, I’m a bad parent ;P
Do as I say not as I do…
My kids use iTunes.
They can’t stop piracy. They can only blow the entire issue out of proportion.