Survey: Do you use file sharing?

[jonmartensen]

Hey, I'm taking a survey of people who share files over the internet. I was hoping I could get some of you to answer a few questions for me.




1. What level of School are you in (Jr. High, High School, College)?


2. For file sharing, do you use the schools network, a home connection (and is it a modem, cable, DSL?), or both?


3. What type of files do you generally share (songs, videos, programs)? Are they popular or rare and hard to find?


4. How much do you download (file size)?


5. Are you aware of the possible consequences of illegal file sharing (fines, jail time)?


6. Are you afraid of lefal action being taken against you or your school?


7. Would you be willing to pay a set amount for limited legal file sharing? Why or why not? And if yes, what is a reasonable amount to pay for songs? (for example $10 for 20?)

[kthulhu]

Jon, I never thought you'd be the one to try and narc on us .

/revokes jon's BAM! powers

[Iamshadowkiller]

le shame sir jon


/end

[Roke]

THEY DELETED MY POST.

BASTARDS.

[jonmartensen]

Jon, I never thought you'd be the one to try and narc on us .

/revokes jon's BAM! powers

Shut up dude, this is for class. I have have to write a convincing argument for something I disagree with.

6. Are you afraid of lefal action being taken against you or your school?

legal

THEY DELETED MY POST.

Why?

[fyrtenheimer]

1. College
2. home connection. if your school allows it, they should be blown up gun style. no pun intended.
3. stupid videos, like "OMFG, FUNNIEST PORN ACCIDENT EVAH, DOWNLOAD NOW" Songs if I want to check them out, groups i've never heard of before, etc
4. Uh, in a day? I don't even dl that much. Most of the video files are like 5mb
6. No, sex me up.
7. uh? per month, year, what? Neway, then uh no. I go buy the cd neway, i only download to hear a 'first look' if it's not available on the artists' web page.

i think that helps
or not

[kthulhu]

Fine, jon. But you better not be narcing. At least, not without giving me a cut of the benefits.

1. What level of School are you in (Jr. High, High School, College)?

I'm not in school, although I am college aged.

2. For file sharing, do you use the schools network, a home connection (and is it a modem, cable, DSL?), or both?

Home cable connection.

3. What type of files do you generally share (songs, videos, programs)? Are they popular or rare and hard to find?

Songs and videos, mostly. I wouldn't say a lot of the stuff I have is rare - more like, obscure.

4. How much do you download (file size)?

Total, or average per session? On average, maybe 120MB, usually audio. I utilize filesharing about every two days.

5. Are you aware of the possible consequences of illegal file sharing (fines, jail time)?

Yes. I disagree with the current penalties - I think the RIAA has the right, if they can prove it in court, to damages no greater than the wholesale value of the track - i.e. the wholesale value of the CD, divided by the number of tracks, would equal the wholesale value of the particular track in question.

6. Are you afraid of legal action being taken against you or your school?

Not especially. I utilize filesharing because, hey, I don't have an assload of free cash. I do try to buy valid media for stuff I REALLY like, that isn't a pain in the ass to track down and overpriced.

7. Would you be willing to pay a set amount for limited legal file sharing? Why or why not? And if yes, what is a reasonable amount to pay for songs? (for example $10 for 20?)

Limited, how? If the songs were high quality, there was a HUGE selection (not just Top 40 or popular stuff), and if the service were cheap ($5-$7.50 per month, and that's kind of on the high end), then yes, I'd consider legitimate file sharing.

[jonmartensen]

Thanks, I appreciate it Fyrt.

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Yeah, you'll get a cut. <_< >_>

/me slashes

[danielwang]

1. College
2a. Home at 56k (temp), Satellite link comink up soon.
2b. School, dual OC3 University of Colorado (not allowed, hidden)
3. An collection of applications, dating back to DOS and up to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Plus, anime and other multimedia files. Some documents.
4. Not very much, just the occasional huge AMV.
5. Of course. see www.chillingeffects.org, www.eff.org, etc.
6. Not much. It's not likely they will make an example of me or my school, as CU has a No File Sharing policy. But, I do hide it over a burst tunneling system (PPTP VPN) and put it on the SSH port.
7. Depends. I would never accept any legal sanction being used to promote or enforce this system, and would boycott if they did continue suing regular file sharing users. However, $1 to 1-3 songs is good.
7a. I would like to comment that, although the songs are availible through file sharing (I use Singingfish to find MP3s), I did buy some music at the Crapple Music Store.

[Aetherfukz]

Hey, I'm taking a survey of people who share files over the internet. I was hoping I could get some of you to answer a few questions for me.

Sure, why not

1. What level of School are you in (Jr. High, High School, College)?

-- College

2. For file sharing, do you use the schools network, a home connection (and is it a modem, cable, DSL?), or both?

-- About 50/50 at school (flat) and at home (cable)


3. What type of files do you generally share (songs, videos, programs)? Are they popular or rare and hard to find?

-- I share only some real gems. The ones you don't usually find easy, and the ones I had a hard time to find or get. Mostly songs (german underground hip hop and stuff)

4. How much do you download (file size)?

-- Depends, sometimes a gig, sometimes only a few megs


5. Are you aware of the possible consequences of illegal file sharing (fines, jail time)?

-- Yeah. But they can't sued EVERYONE that has a computer :/

6. Are you afraid of lefal action being taken against you or your school?

-- Not really - I know they will get me sometimes, but not for this

7. Would you be willing to pay a set amount for limited legal file sharing? Why or why not? And if yes, what is a reasonable amount to pay for songs? (for example $10 for 20?)

-- Not more than 1 euro/dollar for a song, maybe 1.50 or 2 for really rare stuff. And availability has to be good and they have to have much stuff to chose from in order that I would pay for that service.

Peace out,
~Aetherfukz