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Higher Education's Problems With Illegal Student Downloading Have Just Begun, Says First Quantitative Research on Digital Entertainment Habits of College-Bound High School Seniors.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, April, 2004

Byline: Bentley College

WALTHAM, Mass., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first quantitative research on the digital entertainment habits of 285 high school students recently accepted to college, a study by Bentley College revealed that nine out of every ten high school seniors surveyed illegally download and over 95 percent of all the music they downloaded may have been obtained illegally despite ongoing widely publicized lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America.

The Bentley Digital Entertainment Study, conducted April 3, 2004 as part of an undergraduate marketing course, indicated both high levels of current illegal downloading as well as increased expectations for downloading when entering freshmen have access to high...

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