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20% OK with pirated DVDs
10/04/2007 18:39 - (SA)
Pretoria - Twenty percent of South Africans are quite happy to buy pirated compact discs and DVDs, a survey has found.
"It is this state of mind that gives rise to the market for pirated DVDs and CDs that robs talented musicians and other artists of their royalties ...," Neil Higgs of TNS Research Surveys said on Tuesday.
The study conducted at the end of last year sampled 2 000 adults (1258 blacks, 387 whites, 240 coloureds and 115 Indians/Asians) aged 18 and above in seven metropolitan areas including Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
The study has a margin of error of under 2.5% for the results found of the total sample, Higgs said.
The survey found that males were more likely to buy pirated goods, 22%, compared with 17% for females.
The poorest people and the wealthiest agreed least with buying pirated goods - at 9% and 13% respectively - with all other income levels having response rates in the low twenties.
The survey also probed at how people would react if a cashier or a teller gave them R50 too much change.
Thirty-eight percent of the participants said they would keep it.
About 43% of males as compared to 34% of females agreed that they would keep the R50.
The survey forms part of TNS Research Survey into current social and political issues in the country.
- SAPA
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