Eighty percent of teens have downloaded music in the past year and one in three (34%) say they've paid for a music download at some point. Of those who download music but have never paid, they:

Only liked one or two songs on a CD (59%),

Wanted to get music quickly (48%),

Believed music is too expensive to buy (46%),

Wanted to get music for free (44%),

Wanted songs that aren't available for sale (40%), and

Believed music should be shared (38%).

In a new Harris Interactive Youth Survey, researcher Marc Scheer says although teenagers have grown up at a time when free music has been available to them online, "this poll indicates that getting music for free is not the primary reason that teens download. Perhaps it may be possible to develop a music downloading process that is rewarding to both consumers and the recording industry alike."

He also said, "The results of this Harris Interactive survey show that American teenagers, who account for a significant amount of the revenue generated by the music industry, do not agree with the current legal actions that are being enforced against music file sharers."

In other findings, two-thirds (66%) of American teenagers (13-18 years old) oppose fining individuals who offer copyrighted music online for other people to download, while about one in ten teens (13%) believe people who offer copyrighted music on their computers for others to download should be fined, says Harris. Half of teens (52%) strongly oppose such fines and two in ten teens (21%) neither support nor oppose the fines.

"Teen boys (69%) and girls (62%) are equally likely to oppose the fines, although boys are more likely than girls to strongly oppose the fines (60% vs. 45%), and girls are more likely than boys to neither support nor oppose the fines (28% vs. 15%).

"In addition, the poll [conducted online within the US between September 17 and 22 among 642 respondents aged 13-18 years old] found that most teens believe that sharing and downloading of copyrighted music should be legal. Three quarters (78%) of them feel that sharing (letting other people download music from them) should be legal. Additionally, 74% of teens said that downloading copyrighted music files from the Internet without paying for it should be legal."

BLANKET LICENCE BLANKET LICENCE BLANKET LICENCE!!!

Does anyone get it?

I think the RIAA is to blame for such bad taste in music among the youth of America.

On a more serious note.

Legislation is already in the works, to felonize p2p downloaders. The bill is currently labled HR2517. Based on this survey, I forcast a large portion of the upcoming generation being disenfranchized of voting rights, when this bill becomes law. Kneo, are you paying attention?

before anyone ask, downloaders is the correct term.

I can't help it, I must repost...

By being born in the United States, or by being born to legal citizens of the United States, you are already registered at the following web site:

http://thomas.loc.gov/

It is your civic duty to visit this web address in your lifetime. And your perogative to take an intrest in the goings-on there.

all i got to say every day canada starts looking better than america: legal marijuana, fair use rights that actually exist, no people trying to setup a task force to send people to the state pen. what ever happened to freedom of speech? eh i guess every one forgot the little thing called a constitution. answer? rebel again

I know that The RIAA must have access to this type of statistics. They do their own polling and have to know what teens and other americans think. that just really shows their arrogance. I'm just waiting for the next round of lawsuits which I know is coming

An online survey on music shareing? BIAS DETECTED .

Also, look at these two statements:

Three quarters (78%) of them feel that sharing (letting other people download music from them) should be legal. Additionally, 74% of teens said that downloading copyrighted music files from the Internet without paying for it should be legal."

Believed music should be shared (38%).

That last one was only with users who had downloaded without paying, so its biased upwards considerably. The survey contridicts itsself. I find the numbers completly unuseable, and best ignored.

99% of US teens are upset that their taste in music has been ruined by years of exposure to RIAA jackoff "artists".

The other 1% think Creed are really good.

DARKENED'S GOT IT RIGHT, EH!!

MOVE TO CANADA ASAP!

Only 80%? Thats surprising.

When it comes to surveys, they always leave the facts out. Like when giving percentages, how many were interviewed? 2, 3, 1000. So percentages mean nothing with out the number interviewed, so I usually ignore them.

Hmmm, let's play it's your call...

Do we:

1. Start putting bars on the school windows and convert them to reformatories to house all the coming convicted felons.

or

2. Change the friggin' laws.

You voters make the call!

Pretty soon American will be flooding Canada like illegal Mexicans! Free Health care, more lenient laws, more fair laws, less corruption and greed...

Who wants to move to Vancouver!!

Americana is starting to bite the big one if I do say so myself..

too much power, too much money. when was the last time you saw a law abolished? everyday in the paper you see new laws. at this rate we will run out of things we can do, say, smoke, drink, think, in about a hundred years.

I would have a pretty easy time moving to Canada, since it's not too far away from where I already live (Washinton State), but I urge anybody thinking that to stay the course, to stay and fight for YOUR country. This is your country, it's just that a lot of people don't realize this. We need to rally the people in our country and make them realize that this is OUR country, not their country (RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, IBM, AT@T, Boeing, Viacom, Dow Chemical, etc...)

Stay and fight. Our country was founded on a revolution. Democracy is not something that is handed to you, it's something you have to reach out and obtain.

~goingnova

The RIAA are fascists not unlike the infamous Adolf Hitler! But were in a different age now, WE HAVE THE POWER! We are an educated people, we can fight this atrocity! Email me at verysexybob@aol.com if your willing to help me bring down the evils of the RIAA!

-WE HAVE THE POWER

All this suing has turned your beautiful once free land "into" a sewer. What a mess!

I really sympathize with you all. ..terrorists trying to blow you up...corporations who you are supporting trying to bankrupt you..and your own government being bribed into stripping you of your rights..heh...Miscrosoft trying to control your computers. When will you all stand together as a people and say enuff is enuff?

You do have the power as a public to put an end to this..by voting..and
boycotting products.


Boycott them all!..Get your land back!

I think we've kinda forgotten about the terrorists, we're too busy chasing down our own people.

Zeon
"Live Free or Die!!"

High time we organize that big "Free the Music" march on Washington, DC.

Who want's to take bets on how long it takes the RIAA to do a "survey" of their own that pretty much turns that table up there upside down?

I'll say $20 on one week.

Look at the figures. They (literially) dont add up. That survey is worthless. Even if you ignore tha bad statistics work, its an online survey and so unacceptably biased. The RIAA doesn't need to produce a survey of their own to contradict it. The survey contradicts itsself. Anyway, when the RIAA wants statistics it doesn't bother with a survey, it just makes something up.

Those particular figures were never meant to add-up. Rather they are like one of those surveys where they ask you a bunch of questions and then grind the answers into some kind of "results". Prehaps they could have said, out of 215 people polled...

Even kids have a sense of fairness and it doesn't take reading a law book to figure it out. That sense of fairness isn't affected by payolla, bribe, nor being on a retainer list.

When terror organizations get legitmacy, you wind up with much the same as you see going on here. Maybe it is time to move to another country, this one sure doesn't look like the one I grew up in.

"80% of US teens have downloaded music"

And 20% are lying.

darkened03:
"eh i guess every one forgot the little thing called a constitution. answer? rebel again "

Be careful, man. According to the Patriot Act, you could be labeled a terrorist for mentioning rebelling.

Is there a "Boycott Patriot Act" site somewhere?

hmm... the RIAA is still going to sue many people... they don't care about the numbers before the %, only the numbers after the $.

I was personally involved with this survey, and I am here to tell you that it is valid and it is valuable. The survey had 642 respondents, as it says in the final paragraph above. That is not an enormous amount of respondents, but it is enough for us to learn something. The 642 respondents were weighted so that they would represent the US teen population, not just the online population.
goldenpi quickly dismisses the survey but I believe that he/she is off base. GP says that the survey is biased because it is online--this is somehwat true, except that like I said, it was weighted to represent all US teens. Of course the numbers add up. The numbers that do not add up are called "multiple response questions." For example, we ask "why do you download?" and we give respondents a list, and they can check off more than one reason. Finally, GP says that the question about why do you download is biased because it only has the answers of those who have never paid. Well, for me, that is kind of the point. Are the people not paying just because they want music for free? And the results show that, no, that is not the main reason. Plus, many people say they download songs that are not available for sale anywhere. Don't you find that interesting? Talk amongst yourselves.

I plan on conducting my own survey interviews and will report back on the statistical breakdown hopefully sometime next week.

I intend to do it in a group as well as individual settings and all will be conducted face to face...