Survey: teens rely on parents to teach them about copyright

Most teenagers aren't familiar with the rules behind downloading copyrighted materials, according to a survey conducted by Microsoft. They don't think the offense is worth much in the way of punishment, either, at least until they're better educated about copyright. Even then, some still think it's ok because "rock stars don't need the money."<BR><BR>Read More

 

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Every time this discussion comes up in my house I use this analogy:<BR><BR>If you could let me take your car, and still have your car right there for you to use as much as you wanted would you do it? And what if that was made illegal because the car companies wanted to make more money selling cars(we can talk about planned obsolescence and cheap plastic parts in a 20,000 piece of equipment another time). Who would be the bad guy? <BR>/START RANT<BR><BR>The current copyright regime has enabled an economy of fraud based on corporate fiat. OPEC has less control over production and prices than the cartel of media middlemen.<BR><BR>/RANT OFF