Raw Statistics

The data in the following sections are pulled directly from studies done by various sources concerning piracy and other matters. Data is grouped by source. The goal of this section is to provide at a glace concrete data.

Pew: Teen Content Creators and Consumers, 2005 [1]

• More than half of online teens are Content Creators. Online teens enjoy new opportunities to create, remix, and share digital content.
  • 19% of online teens keep a blog and 38% read them.
  • Older girls lead the blogging activity among teens.
  • Teens surpass adults in blog keeping and reading.
  • Blog readers are more prevalent in highly wired and high-income homes.
  • More than half of teen bloggers update once a week or more.
  • Blog reading usually stays within a teen’s personal network.
  • Bloggers manipulate content by sharing and remixing.
  • Teens also create and maintain websites for others.
  • Teen bloggers are tech-savvy and heavy internet users.
  • Bloggers care more about copyright than non-bloggers do.
  • Urban, highly wired teens are more likely to share original artistic content.
  • When it comes to sharing self-authored creative content, older girls stand out.
  • Like adults, some teens use content they find online as a palette for personal expression.

• Most teen downloaders think that getting free music is easy and it’s unrealistic to expect people not to do it.
  • 51% online teens say they currently download music files and close to one-third say they download video.
  • Just 18% of online adults who were surveyed at the end of 2004 reported music downloading.
  • Older teen boys with broadband are the most likely to say they get music online.
  • Like adults, teen downloaders get their music from multiple sources
  • Teens are as likely now to have paid for music online as they are to have tried peer-to-peer services.
  • Teens are twice as likely as adults to report video downloading