Nearly two-thirds of young people download music tracks illegally
Average iPod has 800 illegal tracks
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17 Jun 2008, Guy Dixon , V3
Young iPod owners are walking around with an average of 842 illegally copied songs, according to research by the University of Hertfordshire.
The survey, which questioned 1,200 participants, also revealed that nearly two-thirds of young people download music tracks illegally. The average is 53 songs per month.
A further 42 per cent of the 14 to 24 year-olds admitted to uploading music onto file-sharing networks.
"I was one of those people who went around the back of the bike shed with songs I had taped off the radio the night before. But this totally dwarfs that, and anything we expected," said Fergal Sharkey, former lead singer of the Undertones, and now chief executive of British Music Rights (BMR).
BMR, which commissioned the research, is spearheading a campaign to make legal download services easier to use, and to make breaking copyright less appealing.
The organisation is encouraging ISPs to offer a new type of music download service where large numbers of tracks are made available through an additional fee to the user's broadband package.
"The positive message is that 80 per cent of downloaders said they would pay for a legal subscription-based service, and they told us they would be willing to pay more than a few pounds a month," said Sharkey.
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Do you agree?
Is that all
842, I scoff at 842! all together now..."My perfect cousin, what I like to do he doesn't...." ah Fergal familiar with the term 'Uphill Struggle"? , all this has the 'undertones' or 'teenage kicks' - lol.
Posted by bob, 17 Jun 2008
why
any more than say 2 or 3 GBP per month is enough and what about those people who DO NOT or ARE NOT interested in downloading music. and what of the music for it to interest me would have to be the back catalogue of every company in the world. Im not interested in the modern stuff except for a few indie artists. which it just so happens allow free downloads any way.
Posted by Mike Allen, 17 Jun 2008
Average record label charges too much for music
The barriers are lowering for artists to reach their audience. The last three albumes worth of music I bought were directly from artist websites. Time to cut our the middle industry which seems more aimed at limiting access to music than creating it.
Posted by drew3000, 17 Jun 2008
iPod's aren't the only player
Remember that the iPod is not the only mp3 player. I read another article that said iPod/ZEN/Sansa. So, it is wrong to say iPod. Creative pioneered the mp3 player and invented the iPod interface, which Apple stole. Creative owns the patent. I still believe the ZEN is better than the iPod. Just because the iPod is the most popular doesn't mean it's the best. The iPod unfairly dominates the market and so the ZEN doesn't get any recongition.
Posted by Davin Peterson, 17 Jun 2008
costs
cut the music artist high pay.i would pay a monthly low charge for non drm music
Posted by graham, 18 Jun 2008
Devin
Perhaps the 1200 people surveyed were iPod owners?
Posted by Newsagent Provocateur, 19 Jun 2008