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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AnonPosted: 9 September, 2010 - 12:04 PM
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Copyright is what is illeagal. It is anti-free speech and promotes greed at the expense of cultural progress. It does this in a deceptive way using what was originally stated to be a one of 4 safety valves (the idea/expression dichotomy)intended to insure copyright would achieve its intended purpose of "promoting the progress of science and useful art".
This so called safety valve which recognizes that sharing ideas would hinder that purpose, but tries to reconcile that by allowing the expression of ideas to be protected is a big farce since since it is just a way of allowing ideas protection while saying it doesn't.
Well people are just smarter than they are given credit for and that's why they consider downloading legal.
MichaelPosted: 11 September, 2010 - 12:23 PM
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I think it is abysmal that the world has become about claiming damages<a href="http://www.mpsafety.co.uk">.</a> The internet should have been regulated properly in the first place. Legal or not, it will never stop and punishing those who download is just plain stupid. Its all about money as usual, this world is not progressing, it is getting progressively more spiteful. With respect, George Lucas, Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola are hardly on their arses because of it are they?!
Dish DrainersPosted: 13 September, 2010 - 7:55 AM
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Its all about money as usual, this world is not progressing, it is getting progressively more spiteful.
http://dishdrainers.org
KultanPosted: 22 September, 2010 - 4:56 PM
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Anon that's as silly a justification as you can get for plain theft. You are saying that stealing is the only way to advance culture. That protecting the people that create the art is a bad thing and that "smart" people are the ones who see through this.
The arguments against copyrights are thin and weak. They say things like well the artist shold just perform. Uhh what about the songwriter who wrote the song that doesn't play in front of sold out stadiums? They say the big coorporations are the ones that are looking to benefit. Nonsense, are file sharing sites not 'Big business'.
People want to spend nothing for the movie that costs several million to make and nothing for the Song that featured talented musicians, arrangers, writers, producers, etc.
I'd like anyone to create something and then say that take it off the shelves and advance the culture! Let'see that
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