In what most people would find sort of shocking is the news coming from a Danish study, published by the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit,  where participants were questioned on the morals and ethics of piracy.  In the piracy section respondents were asked to rate, on a scale from 1 to 10, whether they thought unauthorized downloading for personal use is a socially acceptable act.  The researchers found that 7 out of 10 of those questioned felt, to a greater or lesser degree, that it is socially acceptable.  15-20% of the total group believed that piracy is totally acceptable.

This comes as Hollywood, the music industry, and anyone in between continue to try and combat pirates by threatening lawsuits, changing security level’s on disks or digital downloads, or shutting down sites that host pirate material.

Via: TorrentFreak