Lust, Lust, Lust
There’s a new study that suggests that teens are moving away from illegally downloading music. Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that teens are turning to iTunes (or whatever) en masse, but rather is a reflection of the way the Web works in 2009. Music blogs, streaming sites like Imeem and YouTube (note: not all streaming on YouTube is 100 percent legal), applications like Spotify, etc. are increasingly the destination for teens today.
The numbers, put together by Music Alley, say that only 26 percent of 14-to-18 year olds have admitted to illegally downloading music in the past year. That number was 42 percent the previous year. Of course, it’s one thing to “admit” to downloading music, and another thing to actually download music, but you’d have to assume that the study had all those question marks built into it.
Here’s what some music fan told the Guardian, who conveniently lies outside the age range of the above quoted number:
I didn’t even realise it was illegal for a long time, until I heard that the government were trying to stop it. That did put me off, but one of the big reasons I stopped doing it was because I would get viruses, more pop ups on my computer. While I was at uni I started listening to streamed music using MySpace. Bands would be friends with other bands and it was a great way of discovering new music. I don’t really feel the need to own all that music, I know it’s always there.
Yes dear, “the government” is going to smash into your house, smack your mother around, etc. etc. Well at least the RIAA’s tactics are working.
I guess it’s good news, though. I still insist that What.cd is better than anything else out there, and it’s not just the music available. The community will be really hard to replicate elsewhere, I think.
As I write this, I’m listening to The Raveonettes (that’s them up there) on Spotify. The more you know, right?
It’s good to hear that kids are breaking away from the old keyboard and monitor. I’d assume it leaves them plenty of time for much healthier activities, like having a lot of sex and doing a lot of drugs… like their parents did when they were that age.
Everything old is new again…
Did you read the same article that I did? It doesn’t say anything about teens using computers less, just *differently*.
Where did you get your picture of these “teens”? AARP.com?
… is what I would have said, had I not read “Lust, Lust, Lust”.
It would’ve been much funnier the way I envisaged.
I’m 23 and I totally agree. I stopped illegally downloading music too. I’ve been use Pandora and Myspace for a while now. Just recently, I’ve started using Real Rhapsody. I have my playlist that I can either stream or download to my mp3 player. Forget owning rights to have a hard copy of a song. I get tired of songs after a while. I
I think John was abducted by illegal download Pirates in mid sentence for spreading anti-Pirate propaganda.
Should we form a search party?
good idea. but i think firstly, we
Since I have discovered playlist.com and mixpod.com I have found no reason to download.
I can discover new music this way to which I think is great.
I wonder how many of those streams are recorded and turned into mp3s.