YouTube survey results

In newstalk class, we studied not only about current news but also about YouTube controversy. My group’s issue is about YouTube and copyright. We learned relationship between YouTube’s video clips and copyright and discussed that YouTube is or is not safe. To know more details, we made a survey, and the survey’s object is only American. We asked Americans that how they think about YouTube. The result of survey is here. During I surveyed Americans, they helped me without reserve. And then I could approach them on an assessment. I surveyed mostly in dormitory because I live there and met Americans easily in there. My subjects of this survey are all students of SIU. So, I can understand Americans’ thought my age.

This survey’s results show us many things that are their thoughts about YouTube. Most Americans (91%) have heard of YouTube, and 61% of Americans are interested in YouTube. About half of Americans thinks YouTube is not guilty, and 25% of Americans just thinks YouTube is guilty. Moreover, Americans almost will find a new way to watch free movie clips, if people have to pay to watch that on YouTube. 64% of Americans would continue to watch free clips, if they knew it was illegal to watch them. Also, about half of them (53%) think the law should punish people who film them without permission.

These results of survey explain that people think only their benefits. People want to watch video clips if there clips infringe copyright law. However, if these clips relate to themselves, they want to punish people who upload video on sites without permissions. I am surprised about that fact. I think sites such as YouTube should be controlled by film’s honor rather than by government. Government should enact law for owner of film in order to limit copyright infringement.

By Seiyeon