Tuesday, December 12, 2006

UK kids' tune-swapping on phones

Note what kids in the UK are doing on phones and you'll see what's coming to the US. Copyright law isn't exactly on the minds of British child cellphone users. A recent survey found that almost a third of UK 8-to-13-year-olds share music with their phones – "using the built-in Bluetooth wireless feature of many phones … but without the consent of copyright holders," the BBC reports, and "almost a half (45%) of children who said they did not swap music via their phones said they would like to." A quarter of British children under (more than 1 million) have a mobile phone, "and newer models are commonly used as MP3 players to listen to digital music."

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