Kids still love P2P
Another one of those boring and really rather pointless studies has been released todeay, telling us that suprise suprise, kids like to aquire music via the internet, and a percentage of them do it in an illegal manner.
According to "Kids & Digital Content" (honestly who funds these groups?!), a massive 70% of 9-14 year olds download music from the internet in some way or another, with the legal iTunes being the most popular, and LimeWire running in at 26%.
So it looks like the record industry's lawsuits and the like arn't really discouraging kids that much, probably because they are too young to understand what being sued actually means to a person. Maybe we should bring back old style things like Don't Copy That Floppy?
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Prehaps not.
Legislation cannot act on real human.
Fictional legal system can only act on a fictional person. Your fictional person is not you.If you are Luke Skywalker, you are not LUKE SKYWALKER (capital letters). Any legal mail to a name same as you but in capital letter does not concern you and must be returned to sender after you keep copy of content. Put back content in enveloppe, write on enveloppe “open by mistake” & “return to sender”. Send via certified mail back to sender. Keep receipt(s).
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The fact that kids ages 9-14 have no *legitimate* way of earning money might have something to do with it.
Especially if you add in the fact that they probably aren’t able to get a debit card (even if they do have a bank account). At least, I don’t think they can get a debit card with their name on it.
And I have a hard time believing that a 9-14 year old kid who’s actually working
a) Has a good job and
b) is working to earn extra money consistently enough to justify the needs for a banking account (IE: longer than a mowing the lawns over summer type thing).
c) If they *had* a banking account would be able to fully understand why you don’t want to go into negatives (made especially so if this is a part time money making thing, and if mom/dad has to bail them out).
d) If they have a more full time type job, I don’t think they’ll have the money to spare for ‘tunes. Likely, they might be helping mom and dad out with the expenses.