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TorrentFreak reports on the results from a YouGov survey on the file-sharing and content consumption habits of citizens in the UK.
A new survey of young children and adults has found consensus on what should be charged for content online. In both groups, 49% said that people should be able to download content they want for free, with a quarter of 16-24 year olds stating that file-sharing was the only way they could afford to obtain it.
While cost plays its part, the report highlights the low percentages of children believing it wrong to access content "without the creator or artist's permission".
Although ethical concerns do exist, only 16% of children strongly agree that it is wrong to access content without the creator or artist's permission, whilst just 7% say file sharing is a form of stealing.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 21 2014, @01:48AM
In the beginning, the USA established a copyright term so you had an exclusive deal for 14 years.
If you were still alive at the end of that, you could even apply for another 14 years.
In return, after that time, your stuff entered the public domain.
From Article 1 Section 8: [wikipedia.org]
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
...then you guys in the content industry got greedy--again and again and again. [wikipedia.org]
In particular, Walt Disney's heirs.
The Mickey Mouse Curve [blogspot.com]
Times have changed; technology has advanced.
The marginal cost of reproducing your stuff is now zero.
The day of middlemen is over. Get used to it.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by art guerrilla on Saturday June 21 2014, @10:14AM
yes, thank you for that point, which is almost never talked about:
when we were dependent upon horses, 'snail mail', and town criers to get news/info from place to place at a relative glacial pace, the terms of copyright were a scant 14 years ? ? ?
NOW, when we have essentially instantaneous communication and dissemination of media/info, we have terms that are 'lifetime plus a bunch' ? ? ?
that makes NO SENSE logic-wise, but makes a LOT of cents, gatekeeper-wise...
secondly, as Big Media likes to elide, the ONLY REASON our forefathers thought to institute these monopolist protections, is for the -eventual- benefit of society as a whole, NOT TO GIVE UNLIMITED rights to RIGHTSHOLDERS... (i emphasize 'rightsholders' because it is NOT -by and large- the individual artists and creators who are really benefiting from this, it is Big Media korporations who benefit TO THE DETRIMENT OF SOCIETY/culture...)
further, the purported 'reason' WHY we give these state-sanctioned monopolies, is to encourage the originators to produce more... HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU PRODUCING 'MORE', when you are dead-plus-75-years ? ? ? that is total bullshit... it is ALL about the greed, it is all about the big korporations...
no, this is ALL ABOUT Big Media types not wanting to let loose of control, not wanting to give up the extortionist rent-seeking they manage to impose by (legally) bribing the right kongresskritters...
i'm sorry, i don't care HOW TALENTED your favorite band, director, dancer, comedian, writer, actor, etc is, THERE ARE A MILLION nekkid apes AS TALENTED who are right behind them, chomping at the bit for a chance, a break, an opportunity to show us they are JUST AS GOOD as the spoiled artiste who -by the brainwashing of Big Media- BELIEVE they are entitled to earn mega-bucks off their stupid pop song they banged out in 30 minutes, for the rest of their lives (PLUS 75 years!)...
that is elitest bullshit: the house plans i design/draft, don't i 'deserve' a cut every time someone copies those plans and uses them ? well, that's not how it works out, and that is okay: i have to produce AGAIN, not just get a one-hit wonder and retire... so should stupid artistes...
Big Media ? they can FOAD and the world would be a better place...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tathra on Saturday June 21 2014, @11:54AM
and there's the real issue right there, imo.
they are quite literally stealing from the public domain, and thus actively working to destroy our culture out of greed and selfishness.
they started a war on culture, locking everything down that they can for well beyond the human lifespan, and they're shocked that people are 'fighting back'? fuck you. i'll stop "stealing" from them when they stop stealing from society.