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January 25, 2007
Downloading vs shoplifting
Downloading vs shoplifting: Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica talks of a marketing study which concludes [paraphrase] "40% say downloading movies is very bad, 78% say shoplifting DVDs is very bad, 59% say parking in a fire lane is very bad." The study itself doesn't seem available to inspection... they called 1000 US citizens on phone and took 1600 internet responses, and it's unclear how they phrased the questions. (22% of people not feeling shoplifting is serious seems odd.) Still, this is one of the few measurements of the "piracy isn't shoplifting" sentiment that I've seen.
Posted by JohnDowdell at January 25, 2007 08:56 PM
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btw, when I first read this article I was wondering whether the survey distinguished porn from commercial features from other types of movies you could download. Could get different answers depending on how the questions were put.
Posted by: John Dowdell at January 25, 2007 09:19 PM