Barna Teenagers Music Survey

• Peers are the most common source of teenagers’ information about CD copying (32%) as well as about music downloading (28%). Other sources of information related to CD copying included teachers (13%), parents (11%), newscasters (9%), other people on TV (4%), siblings (2%), TV commercials (1%), radio DJs (1%), MTV (1%), newspapers (1%), and the police (1%).

• The sources of information for the morality of downloading music are: peers (28%), teachers (13%), parents (11%), newscasters (9%), musician/artist (8%), other people on TV (4%), TV commercials (3%), pastor (3%), newspapers (2%), youth pastors (2%), siblings (1%), and radio DJs (1%).
  
• 86% of teens believes that music piracy – including copying a CD for a friend or downloading non-promotional music online for free – either is morally acceptable or is not even a moral issue. 8% claim that such activities are morally wrong. (2004)

• 21% of teens said that both CD burning and downloading are morally okay. (2004)

• 65% of teenagers believe music piracy is not a moral issue. (2004)

• Just 10% of Christian teens believe that copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading are morally wrong, compared to 6% of non-born agains (the four-point difference barely qualified as statistically significant). (2004)

• 64% of born again Christian teens believe that copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music is not a moral issue, compared with 66% of non-Christians. (2004)

• 4 out of every 5 teenagers (80%) have engaged in some type of music piracy in the past six months – including making copies of CDs for other people, downloading free music (other than promotions or giveaways), or uploading their own music files to the Internet to share with others. (2004)

• Active church attenders (78%) were just as likely as non-attenders (81%) to engage in piracy; born again Christians (77%) were just as likely as non-born again Christians (81%). (2004)

• 84% of teenagers said they had purchased a CD or cassette from a music store in the past six months. (2004)

• Only 48% of teenagers have ever heard anyone discuss the morality of music downloading. (2004)

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