Home copying - burnt into teenage psyche | Technology | The Guardian - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Apr 08
  

  _ dashun _

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• 07 Apr 08
  

  Bobby Elliott

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  Jonathan Bailey

  More than half of young people copy the songs on their hard drives to friends and even more swap CD copies, according to research that reveals the huge challenge home copying poses to a music industry already battling internet file-sharing.

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  • The industry's anti-piracy efforts have largely focused on illegal online music swapping - with estimates suggesting only one in 20 digital downloads is paid for. But the online problem is potentially dwarfed by "offline copying", argues BMR. Its research, carried out by the University of Hertfordshire, suggests that, for 18-24-year-olds, home copying remains more popular than file sharing. Two-thirds of people it surveyed copy five CDs a month from friends.

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