The NYTimes had a piece in yesterday’s Business Section regarding one of the people behind one of the illegal-film/tv download sites that was taken down around the same time as Megaupload.
The pervasive cultural norm, especially among younger people, is that illegal downloading, at least when it involves material from big corporations, is no big deal. Andrés Monroy-Hernández, a social computing researcher at Microsoft Research, studied attitudes around ownership on collaborative, user-generated websites. He found that young Internet users became angry when peers used their works without permission, but didn’t see a problem in lifting images from shows or movies for use in their own work.
“The farther removed you feel from the source,” he said, “the more likely you are to disregard the copyright and the intellectual property.”
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