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nme.com - 6/18/2008

'Nearly 100 per cent of music fans copy music illegally'

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A new poll conducted by the British Music Rights has found that 96 per cent of the 1,100 14-24-year-olds polled admit to illegally copying music.

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Poll Shows Illegal Downloading is The Norm
Cinema Blend Music — Poll Shows Illegal Downloading is The Norm A recent poll shows what everyone more or less suspected anyway: the current 14-24 age group, affectionately known by surveyors as “the Myspace generation,” is swimming, wallowing and bathing in illegally downloaded music, NME reported Tuesday. Carried out by the group British Music Rights and the University of Hertfordshire, the poll – the largest UK academy survey of its kind, they say – asked 1,100 “‘Spacers” about their downloading diet, finding nearly all music fans illegally copy the tunes. Ninety-five percent do it, in fact, ...