Copyright laws? What copyright laws?!
The latest survey finds that two-thirds of adults who download music couldn't care less about copyright laws, although the survey was done before the RIAA made public its intentions to sue the individuals who share music online (not the people who download that music) according to this AP story in the San Jose Mercury News. Maybe people feel it is payback time for having been forced to buy expensive ($14-18) CDs which only had one or two songs that were any good!
The survey published Thursday by the nonprofit Pew Internet and American Life Project estimated that roughly 35 million American adults use file-sharing software, about 29 percent of Internet users. Those figures were generally consistent with other estimates of 60 million American users across all age groups
...The survey said younger Americans, ages 18 to 29, were least worried about copyrights, with 72 percent saying they weren't concerned. It said 61 percent of Americans who were 30 to 49 years old were similarly unconcerned. Full-time students were the least concerned with violating copyright, with 82 percent saying they were not worried.