Half the Songs on the Average Teen's iPod Are Illegal
If you were to dig through the average 18-year-old's iPod, you'll find quite a bit of illegally obtained music. According to a recent British study, an average of 842 illegally downloaded tracks can be found on a 14-24 year-old's iPod. 842 songs equals about half of the average music collection for the same age group.
The study also proved once and for all that anyone who says they don't illegally download music is probably lying. 96 percent of respondents age 18-24 have illegally copied or downloaded music, while 89 percent of 14-17 year olds have.
Record companies are desperate to put an end to piracy and restore revenue streams as CD sales continue to bottom out. This same study also showed that teens were willing to pay for legal subscription services. Even so, consumers have long had a number of legal subscription services -- Napster, Rhapsody, and others -- to choose from and yet none have truly taken off.
Perhaps if consumers weren't scarred by decades of greed, stupidity, crappy music and artificially inflated prices, they'd be more willing to play fairly. [Source: Times Online]
Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
StrangeBum @ Jun 16th 2008 4:40PM
utorrent and piratebay FTW!!!
/not that I use it to download music illegally
//nope, not at all...complete legal torrents
///like stuff from revision3
undrgrndgirl @ Jun 17th 2008 12:05AM
given that it is nearly illegal to loan a cd to someone else to listen to (in fact its getting to be a gray area to even listen to a cd with another person)...it's not surprising that half of all music on ipods is "illegal"...i mean really - have you actually read the most recent fbi warnings??? "unlawful lending...[even] without monetary gain..." what the he!! does that mean??? and these laws do not protect the artist/composer but the recording industry...really its just gotten ridiculous!!
Wes @ Jun 17th 2008 10:14AM
um.... yeah.... A 40 gig Ipod would hold about $10,000 worth of songs at iTunes prices.
andyg8180 @ Jun 17th 2008 2:22PM
ummmm, what happened to the good old days of just getting your voice out so people can hear you? I will only buy a CD if i really like the music or if the artist is worth supporting... OR EVEN if the CD came with extra stuff like music videos and stuff... if not, screw that... everyone is a one hit wonder now-adays... im not gonna pay you for a song the radio plays every half hour... on the half hour...
Michael @ Jul 26th 2008 5:02AM
Only half? Besides, I agree with andyg8180: most artists today are one hit wonders. Even if they aren't, many have the bad habit of putting only one or two good songs on a CD amidst 14 or so crap songs and then they expect you to pay $14+ for it. It's easier and cheaper to download them illegally. The problem with subscription sites is that some months you might only download a few songs but you're paying the price of a full CD to do so. Other months, you could download Led Zeppelin's entire discography for the same price.