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HIIT p2p Survey
Preliminary results 2007
Overview of the Study
• What kind of attitudes relate to the P2P usage and copyright legislation?
• How have different kinds of actions impacted attitudes and P2P usage?
• The aim is to give tools for legislators and public discussion
Overview of the Study II
• The questionnaire was answered by 6103 readers of different electronic magazines by SanomaWSOY
• Mikrobitti, Taloussanomat, Digitoday• The questionnaire was available on the
Internet for one week. (15.-22.8.2007)• Responsible researcher: LL.M Herkko
Hietanen
Gender6 %
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As far as I understand the following actions are in accordance with the law:
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In my opinion it iscondemnable to
downloadunauthorized files
In my opinion it iscondemnable to
shareunauthorized files
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Conclusions IThe main findings: - The users of online music stores appreciated the easy use of the
stores and furthermore laid weight on the importance to be able to buy a single track instead of an entire album
- The technical protection measures decreased the amount of customers for online music stores
- The actions taken by the copyright owners have not had any significant effect on the usage of p2p sites
- The participants of the survey had problems recognizing the rights granted on a user by the copyright law
- The chance of getting caught was estimated to be between the chance of winning lottery jackpot and the chance of a television license inspector’s visit
- Large-scale p2p file-sharing was generally thought to be as condemnable as failing to pay for television license
Conclusions II- The use of p2p file-sharing sites has not significantly affected the use
of other medias, except for portable record devices, such as iPod, which use it has increased
- Many would be willing to pay monthly for a service that enabled unlimited music- and video file sharing and downloading
- About 80% of the participants thought that p2p file-sharing sites allowed new music and artists to become known
- Selling pirated recordings of different medias was thought to be more condemnable than large scale p2p file-sharing
• The next tasks: clusteration, correlations and closer analysis for a scientific article
• The researchers will publish the survey’s raw data on 15 September 2007
Contact Details:
• Herkko Hietanen, researcher• Helsinki Institute for Information Technology• 050-384 1634, [email protected]