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In a Harris Interactive survey of 1,183 children and adolescents, 88% said they realize that most popular music is copyrighted but 56% download it for free anyway. More kids in the survey were concerned about downloading viruses than piracy.

Most of the kids knew that there are copyrights for games, software and books but a third still download games. 43% said it was alright to download music and 30% said the same about software. 17% download movie files.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) says the responses to this survey show that children need to be educated more about behaving legally on the Internet. The RIAA has conducted such campaigns and took it further by suing people who use P2P networks.

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What's so bad about MP3 downloading? They need to stop giving us that "It hurts our bussiness" crap, because their sales increased FASTER after the introduction of Napster.

What ever happened to the land of the free? Freedom of speach and freedom of action...

Looks like the land of the free has turned into the land of the Warez. Whats so bad about d/l mp3's? I dont know, maybe its illeagle?

If it was on a smaller scale you would hardly hear about it. The music industry fliped out in the 80's too when casett tapes came out. *gasp* they can record music on thier own. CD's were invented to save the music industry. Thier own greed lead to wider clearer copying. Then came the MP3 format. But *.WMA just might take it over before all is said and done.