Note what kids in the UK are doing on phones and you’ll see what’s coming to the US. Copyright law isn’t exactly on the minds of British child cellphone users. A recent survey found that almost a third of UK 8-to-13-year-olds share music with their phones – “using the built-in Bluetooth wireless feature of many phones … but without the consent of copyright holders,” the BBC reports, and “almost a half (45%) of children who said they did not swap music via their phones said they would like to.” A quarter of British children under (more than 1 million) have a mobile phone, “and newer models are commonly used as MP3 players to listen to digital music.”
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