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Reference
| Title: | Combate à Pirataria começa na escola |
| Author: | Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FIRJAN) |
| Year: | 2006 |
Details
| Subject/Type: | Counterfeiting, Piracy |
| Focus: | Apparel and Shoes, Consumer Electronics / Electronic Equipment, Fashion Accessories, Film, Medicines and Medical Devices, Music, Software, Toys, Watches |
| Country/Territory: | Brazil |
| Objective: | To measure adolescents' consumption of and attitudes towards counterfeit and pirated goods. |
| Sample: | 433 adolescents aged 14-24 |
| Methodology: | Survey |
Main Findings
93.8% of Brazilian adolescents admit to purchasing counterfeit and pirated goods, in particular CDs (82%), DVDs (60%), pens/scissors (38%), watches (37%), consumer electronics (31%), software (31%), clothes (30%), fashion accessories (26%), shoes (24%), sunglasses (23%), and toys (21%). Their families most frequently buy pirated CDs and DVDs, watches, fashion accessories, clothes and toys.
Top reasons given for buying fake goods are: “high price of the original” (85.5%), “quicker availability of fakes” (for example for CDs/DVDs; 45.9%), “cannot afford the original” (40.6%), “saving money” (33.7%), and “fake is of same quality as original” (25.7%).
Awareness of potential health and/or performance risks related to fake products is relatively high as evidenced by 71.6% who know that fake products may not work as expected, or not work at all, and 60.3% who say they are informed about the potentially lethal risk of counterfeit medicines. Respondents partially agree that piracy and counterfeiting are linked to organized crime.
Information campaigns would stop 17.6% from buying fake goods. 50.8% say that such campaigns would not affect their purchasing habits. By contrast, 62.6% of respondents would inform their friends and family if they knew more about the negative consequences of fakes.
[Date Added: Mar 12, 2010 ]