Alright, I’m calling BS on this one. I personally have a total of over 13,700+ songs on my PC and none of them are stolen. I find it damn near impossible to believe that 50% of all kids with MP3 players have 840+ stolen songs each.
I'm calling BS on you calling BS.
You are an adult with a job. Prbably a decent paying job, or the [H] likely wouldn't have lasted this long.
I'm adult making a decent wage who also has several thousands of songs on my PC/DAP that are 100% bought and paid for.
However, I work at a university, and it is far form uncommon that the kids are wandering around with 5000 or so songs that they ripped off sititng on their PC or loaded on their bloated ipod. Most of them listen to music maybe ahour a day. Heck, it isn't that uncommon for some kids to have collections pushing a terabyte. They like music, it's a desirable thing, and they have access to it with zero perceived cost. So they tend to hoard it. Same thing with porn and DVDs. The difference is that with DVDs, we HAVE to give a crap because they cripple our network with the behavior. With the rest, we do just enough to avoid being sued because of the kids. The dishonest kids thend to have a lot of illegal content they haven't (and likely never will) get around to consuming.
Your average honest teen has an MP3 player that holds mostly empty space. They don't have the money to come even close to filling it at hand, or if they do, they tend to not buy more than they actually listen to.
Combine these to behaviors, and the average ammount of pirated content on the average device is quite high.