Survey Suggests Reasons for Digital Piracy
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Peter Mandelson’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills sponsored government focus group called Consumer Focus recently released the results of its survey on digital piracy and came to the conclusion that most of the people opt for downloading copyrighted material illegally as they do not know any legal source for downloading.
The focus group conducted a poll involving around 2000 adult internet users and found out that only sixty percent of the respondents could name at least one legal download service such as iTunes and Amazon. This, according to the group, makes it evident that the fault lies with the music industry itself, as it has failed to take measures to promote legal download sites to curb instances of digital piracy.
Jill Johnstone, International Director at Consumer Focus, affirmed the findings and said that it is primarily the responsibility of music industry itself to work upon ways to promote and provide legal sources for music download. She also added that only when people are made fully aware of the legal alternatives to illegal downloading can enforcement agencies be asked to punish repeat offenders.
The group has come up with recommendation to solve the problem. Some of the suggestions include a broader range of alternative legal downloading service and restructuring of copyright licensing laws of the country to enable more players from the music industry to provide their customers with legal downloading options. Though this very reason for increasing illegal downloads does not sound much convincing, the consumer rights group would be happy as the recommendations would protect repeat offenders from being disconnected.
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