News Talk assignment

We started to work on copyright in CESL class. Also, we study news about YouTube in News Talk so we do this survey.
http://siucesslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2007/05/survey-rsults.html
We choose YouTube to be our issue survey because YouTube is a popular website and we want to know what people’s opinion about YouTube. Moreover, we decide to focus on American people and observe them while asking and talking. We usually did not choose time to do survey. We usually took our survey by ourselves. When we met people, we could ask them to do our survey. Through this survey, we could talk to American easily and knew what they thought. Generally, American people were nice to accept our survey. Some of them presented little confused about our survey because the questions are long and similar. In addition, American people like to talk and ask questions while doing survey. They were interested in this topic if we met American who is students. Therefore, this survey is interesting and makes us know more about American style.
Do you think people should pay for these clips? More than half of American people (69%) disagree with pay for these clips. Most male think they would not pay money and most female think the same as male. However, female is willing to pay for these clips more than male. Moreover, because this survey based on campus, most people are in 18-22 ages. The group of 18-22 is the biggest group in this survey. Most of them would not pay any money for these clips. Furthermore, the group of 23-30 also thinks people should not pay money for these clips. Those are two groups just have a few people agree with pay money for these clips. People who are over 30 ages think people should not pay money for these clips and people who disagree more than agree to pay money for these clips.
According to survey, I am surprised to see the result that people do not want to pay money whether male or female. Moreover, it is obvious that students like free products but over 30 ages people still do not want to pay any money for these clips because I think older people have more moral sense about infringement and they are ability to afford clips expense. Even people know YouTube is illegal, they still want to keep watching it.
I watched the YouTube before. It is easy to get the clips if you want to watch. Some people argue that YouTube is illegal and infringe copyright so this website should be prohibited. However, other people think even YouTube commits to regulation, people still find other way to get clips. It is not solution to prohibit YouTube. It has various opinions about YouTube. Nevertheless, in my opinion, I do not usually watch clips in YouTube but I think YouTube should exist. If people want to see older drama or program, they can find it in YouTube. Moreover, I remember I loved a drama when I was a child. However, I can not find it in stores now because it is too old but I found some clips about that drama and I am so happy to see that. Sometimes, clips as a memory. Although YouTube is infringement, the previous reason is people. People enjoy watching so YouTube exists. The government should make a regulation to regulate this kind of situation as YouTube but people should regulate themselves at first.


BY Carol