- TORRENTFREAK: Hi Hannah! How old are you?
- HANNAH: I’m 10 in 12 days.
- TORRENTFREAK: What sort of music are you listening to right now?
- HANNAH: Sean Kingstone, Shayne Ward, and High School Musical 2.
- TORRENTFREAK: Where did you first get into music?
- HANNAH: On the music channels, on MTV.
- TORRENTFREAK: When did you get a PC?
- HANNAH: People had computers but I couldn’t go on them. My dad bought me one last year. I have Internet.
- TORRENTFREAK: What do you do on the Internet?
- HANNAH: MSN, talking to friends and cousins, games and dressing-up games [dolls].
- TORRENTFREAK: When did you first start using the internet to get music?
- HANNAH: My cousin showed me YouTube and then LimeWire and I was like “whoa cool!”
- TORRENTFREAK: What was cool about it?
- HANNAH: Because you can put anything in and it will come up and you don’t actually pay for it. Well you have to pay for the Internet and LimeWire comes with the Internet but you have to pay for that, so LimeWire isn’t really free.
- TORRENTFREAK: Ok… I see.... Do you get music from anywhere else?
- HANNAH: My cousin gets it from BEBO. She copies it from other people’s pages and puts it on her own.
- TORRENTFREAK: Do you think it’s OK to copy the music?
- HANNAH: Yes, it’s OK because she only does it to make her page better.
- TORRENTFREAK: So you’re sure that it’s OK to copy it? What do you think about copying?
- HANNAH: I suppose it’s not OK to copy but people copied it off her site so she just copies theirs. It’s like, you’re copying my t-shirt so I’m copying you on shoes.
- TORRENTFREAK: OK, so a bit like copying school work? Hmm. OK, let’s talk about copying on the computer again. When you started using LimeWire, did anyone ever mention that if you did certain things you might be breaking some laws?
- HANNAH: Why would they put it [music] on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?
- TORRENTFREAK: Confusing, isn’t it? You mentioned you like Sean Kingstone. What if I told you that Sean Kingstone’s boss might send you a letter asking for money because you shared his album on LimeWire? What would you say to him?
- HANNAH: W.E.! [whatever!]
- TORRENTFREAK: Come on, play along with me. What would you say if he did?
- HANNAH: I’d say, “Tooooo strict!” And anyway he can’t make me do anything. He’s not the boss of me, he’s the boss of Sean Kingstone.
- [excerpt from http: //torrentfreak.com/inside-the-mind-of-a-9-year-old-file-sharer-071021/]
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