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Quarter admit illegal downloads


30/ 4/2006

MORE than a quarter of 10 to 25-year-olds have illegally downloaded music, films or software from the internet, a Government survey said today.

A Home Office report showed 26% had committed the act, with 63% saying they had done so more than three times.

A quarter of people of all ages who use the web at home had unwittingly accessed or received "offensive or upsetting material" in the last 12 months.

This category showed a significant jump from 21% to 25% year-on-year, the report said.

Only a fifth had reported the offensive material to someone, such as an internet service provider, the poll showed, and only 2% had reported it to police.

Results from the British Crime Survey (BCS) also revealed that 27% of households with the internet had been affected by a computer virus in 2003-04, a significant leap from 18% the year before.

The report also showed:

* One in 10 of those aged between 16 and 25 had been victims of mobile phone harassment: 10% compared to 8% of those aged over 26;

* Among 18 to 25 year olds, 16% admitted falsifying work expenses and 10% admitted insurance fraud;

* Some 4% of people with credit cards had been victims of card fraud.

The data also drew on the Home Office's Offending, Crime and Justice survey, which polled 10,000 people aged 10 to 65 in England and Wales.

The BCS involved interviews with 42,000 people in England and Wales.

Do the findings surprise you? What should be done to stop illegal downloading? Have your say below.


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   If they charged a fair price, rather than 'what the market will bear', piracy would be almost non-existant. If they still make vast profits despite the piracy, is something not very wrong? If prices in the UK are higher than those of our neighbours, the manufacturers get everything they ask for. It's not as if they make it difficult.
'arry, Arbroath
1/05/2006 at 13:22

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   i thought it would be alot higher too more like 26% don't do it
manchester, manchester
1/05/2006 at 11:42

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