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Survey: European Youth Increasingly Ditching TV, Radio for Web

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 23, 2005 - 8:38am.
London -- European youth are spending less time watching TV and listening to the radio in favor of surfing the Internet, according to a survey of 15-24 year-olds across Europe conducted by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). Of those surveyed, 46% said they watch less TV as a result of using the Internet; 34% said they talk on the phone less; 33% said they read fewer newspapers; and 22% said they don't listen to the radio as much. In terms of overall media consumption, European youth still spend the most time watching TV (31%), compared with radio (27%), the Internet (24%) and newspapers (10%). Almost half of the young people surveyed said they were prepared to pay for music online (47%), while 25% said they would pay for online gaming. "The 15-24 age group is the holy grail for most advertisers and the EIAA research conclusively demonstrates the extent to which the internet now represents an essential media for this audience, increasingly replacing other media including TV and radio, said EIAA chairman Michael Kleindl.
tags: Internet | Radio | TV | Youth | Power | Web | Survey | Teenager | satistics |

Norwegian Teenager Faces New Trial On DVD-Cracking Charges

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 1, 2003 - 3:34am.
Oslo -- A Norwegian teenager acquitted on charges he violated copyright law by creating a program that can crack the encryption security on DVD discs will now face a new trial, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Jon Johansen was acquitted in January of charges brought by the Norwegian government at the behest of the U.S. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), related to his creation of the computer code "DeCSS," which Johansen created to allow DVDs to play on PCs running the Linux operating system. The DeCSS code may also be used illegally to copy DVDs, and its publication by several parties in the U.S. has spawned lawsuits under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Johansen's attorney, Halvor Manshaus, told Reuters that the Borgarting appeals court will begin hearing the appeal on Dec. 2. "I regard our prospects for the appeal as positive. We are in a stronger position now than ever before since we won the first time," Manshaus told Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2487095 http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case
tags: Norwegian | Teenager | DVD-Cracking |