Norton Study Reveals People View Internet Copyright File Sharing as Legal
Posted: 09th Sep, 2010 By: MarkJ
A new Norton Cybercrime Report - The Human Impact - has revealed that Copyright Holders (Rights Holders) face an uphill struggle with convincing people to stop using their broadband ISP connections for "illegal" file sharing (p2p) activity. Nearly half of respondents felt it "legal" to download a single music track, album or movie without paying (17%, 14%, and 15% respectively).Norton's Marian Merritt said:
"The anonymous online world we live in enables many of us to engage in activities that would be clearly illegal if done in the physical world. So while we’re besieged by online cybercrime, we often engage in forms of online theft, misrepresentation, defacement and simple lying without recognizing our own hypocrisy."
"The anonymous online world we live in enables many of us to engage in activities that would be clearly illegal if done in the physical world. So while we’re besieged by online cybercrime, we often engage in forms of online theft, misrepresentation, defacement and simple lying without recognizing our own hypocrisy."
The study continues on to claim that, despite these "shaky ethics and questionable behaviour", only a fifth of adults (22%) say they have online regrets. In addition, across all of the countries involved, a third have used a fake online identity and 45% lie about personal details (age, sex, income, etc.); although this could be to protect personal privacy.
However, people in the UK are relatively squeaky clean, with only 18% using a false online ID or 33% lying about personal details.
Report contributor, Joseph LaBrie PhD, comments:
"We’ve become accustomed to getting so much of what we need off the Internet for free. So it’s difficult to train people to think about paying for something in this otherwise free place. They don’t regard it in the same way as regular commerce. The psychology around the Internet is that if it’s out there, it’s fair game."
"We’ve become accustomed to getting so much of what we need off the Internet for free. So it’s difficult to train people to think about paying for something in this otherwise free place. They don’t regard it in the same way as regular commerce. The psychology around the Internet is that if it’s out there, it’s fair game."
Some 7,000 adults in 14 countries around the world participated in Norton's study, which also found that 65% have been a victim of cybercrime.
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