Internet users are unknowingly turning into online pirates over confusion about what is legal and what is not to be downloaded on the sites, according to a new survey.
According to a survey by Wiggins, about 44% of the survey respondents thought that it was legal to copy-paste from commercially produced media to a file-sharing site or they were not aware of whether it was lawful or not.
About a 35% of respondents wrongly claimed it was lawful to copy a film or TV show as a file from a friend, or confessed they didn’t know if it was legal.
Majority of respondents agreed that copyright is important and that infringement should be prevented and about 68% were in favour of protecting the creative industries from piracy, compared to 55% in 2010.
About two-thirds of the respondents admitted regular usage of search engines including Google to discover illegal content.
Additionally, over one in four used search engines every day to find such illegal material.
