Nearly half of Internet users (49%) reported consuming cultural goods unlawfully, including 29% for less than six months, according to a study conducted by the High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the Internet (Hadopi ) and made public Sunday, January 23, at Midem in Cannes.The study was conducted online from October 25 to November 4, 2010, with 2687 users in two representative samples of the population of French Internet users. According to the survey, 13% of Internet users say they resort to illegal practices (download, streaming ...) regularly and 36% "occasionally or exceptionally.
But they are much more likely (95%) think that French Internet users do. Illegal practices decrease with age. Among the 15-24 years 70% reported consuming unlawfully, against 55% of 25-39 years and 32% of the 40 and older. AN OFFER TOO EXPENSIVE AS STATUTORY probes for Internet Piracy, practice "is not slowing down and becoming more diverse." A quarter of Internet users reporting illegal use believes that the practice for over five years, but 29% said they had begun "within the last six months", after the adoption of web laws to fight against illegal downloading.
But users are accepting illicit uses of the biggest buyers of cultural property as other according to this study. They carried a monthly expenditure slightly above average and are less likely than average to say "no expense". For respondents, the price is the biggest drag on the lawful use (37%), followed by the diversity of supply (21%), the habit of illicit consumption (13%) the brakes to the payment (12% ) and uses the brakes (11%).
The study also shows a "confusion between legal and illegal, mainly because of charges fees for certain illegal services," notes Internet Piracy.
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