That might not be a true statement for every young person, but I had a fascinating conversation with my 18 year old nephew over the holiday. He managed to get his sister's laptop infected with a ton of viruses and spyware so I was fixing it and explaining to him how P2P programs and much of the crap he is downloading is full of spyware and virus.
Our conversation turns to music when I see that in the last 6 months he has downloaded about 1,000 songs. I ask him if he realizes that is illegal. He tells me it isn't. I ask him how it is not and he explains to me that if someone bought the CD then uploaded it all he is doing is sharing it so it isn't illegal. I tried to explain the reality of how copyright works, but he didn't care and was 100% sure that it was perfectly fine to download as much stuff as he wanted since someone somewhere had paid for it and it was all just sharing. I asked him how many of his friends felt the same way and downloaded the stuff they had. He replied, "All of them."
It seems like the youth of today may not even realize they are breaking the law and even if they do know so they don't seem to care. If it is online, they can have it for free is their motto.
I told him if he one day gets hit with a massive lawsuit don't come to me looking for help because I told him not to do it.
The funny part of the whole story is that I went through the history and saw what sites he used to download stuff, I uninstalled the clients the blocked those sites in IE. He is going to be pissed
