Petteri Pyyny
18 Mar 2004 15:53
According to a study conducted by Nielsen NRG on behalf of the MPAA, 40 percent of American parents whose kids use the Net don't know that swapping of copyrighted material is illegal (although its still unknown whether downloading -- not uploading -- such material in States is illegal as AFAIK there are no court cases about that yet).
Study also found that 55 percent of the parents knew that their kids didn't pay for the content they got from the Net and 15 percent didn't know whether their kids paid for the content or not.
Probably the most interesting finding in the study was the fact that one third of the parents who themselves downloaded copyrighted material from the Net learned how to do so from their own kids.
So, MPAA's solution? "Once parents take the time to get the facts and have the increasingly important 'download discussion', they are taking yet one more step in keeping their family safe and raising good 'digital citizens'", MPAA's vice president of public affairs said in the statement.
Source: VNUNet