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Brief: College students have no morals, nothing new

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 5:59 PM

David Pogue was shocked to discover that when interacting with an audience of 500 college students only 2 thought downloading music and video is illegal. Why is he surprised? The faster the west realizes it will be just like the east, the better.

What does this have to do with mobile? The next evolution of P2P will be in mobile. More on that as we get closer to 2008.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Reptile

    thinking that it isn’t illegal is ignorance
    thinking that it shouldn’t be illegal is wisdom :)

  • JaXX

    I interact with more or less young people pretty often over here in europe (and my pretty large family already gives alot of work) and even if the proportion isn’t that crazy, they are never really far from recognizing that they got music and movies a bit too easy on their drives to feel honest.
    I play the Old Nerd who gives lessons all the time, the worst being that I’m the one who actually has the most reasons to not really afford all the music I purchase (iTunes/eMusic/etc…), and sometimes that makes them think a bit.
    All I hope is that those Vivendi-Universal-Warner-WorldCompany and so on recognize that they can’t continue selling CD’s at around 20€ ($28) and expect sales to continue growing at a mad pace without a bit of piracy !

    Anyways…

    Happy Holidays to you all ! (I’m not the “clerical” kind of “Merry Christmas” guy even if I mean it :-) )

  • adonisdemon

    BUY music!!?? WTF!? Why? So we can play it on only one device legally? Maybe if it was DRM free and I could play it legally on all my portable music devices then one might consider buying music again.

    Feel sorry for the artists as they are only ones getting screwed both ways.