Andre Yoskowitz
6 Mar 2008 13:53
According to a new study recently released in the UK, the largest cause of piracy and other copyright infringement is simply, a lack of choice or legal alternatives. The study went as far to show that over 30 percent of UK citizens had downloaded pirated content, or at least plan to do so in the future.
The study, the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey, really only said what many have been saying for years now; legal venues don't have the quality or quantity of the illegal ones.
70 percent of those who had admitted to piracy also agreed that their primary reason for doing so was because “legal sites just don’t have the range of illegal ones”. The same amount of people also agreed that they would purchase the content if what they wanted was available.
Of the respondents who admitted to piracy, 70 percent also suggested that illegal venues were much faster.
Even more interestingly, 68 percent of those studied believed there was little chance they would be caught downloading and understood that many anti-piracy campaigns are more for intimidation.
Read the whole study here, its an interesting read.