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Reference
| Title: | File Sharing Has Become the "New Normal" for Most Online Canadians |
| Author: | [Angus Reid Strategies] |
| Source: | http://www.angusreidstrategies.com/uploads/pages/pdfs/2009.03.12_FileSharing.pdf |
| Year: | 2009 |
Details
| Subject/Type: | Piracy |
| Focus: | Film, Music |
| Country/Territory: | Canada |
| Objective: | To examine the attitudes and behaviour of Canadian Internet users concerning online file sharing. |
| Sample: | 1.395 randomly selected Canadian adults who are Angus Reid Forum panellists, representative of adult Canadian Internet users |
| Methodology: | Online survey |
Main Findings
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is prevalent in Canada: 23% of Canadian Internet users admit to having downloaded free digital music files from P2P networks in the past 30 days. Just 12% have paid a fee to download digital music from an online music store.
Seven in ten users see no major problems with file sharing: 45% think that those people who use free file sharing networks “are just regular Internet users doing what people should be able to do on the Internet”; a further 27% say that these people should not be doing so, however, that “it is not a big deal”. 25% affirm that technology should stop these people from doing so. Just 3% say that these people “are criminals who should be punished by law”.
[Date Added: Mar 31, 2009 ]