Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer
Written by enigmax on October 21, 2007Everyone knows that a significant number of file-sharers are teenagers and young adults and they get their share of press. But what about the true kids - the under 10’s ? TorrentFreak makes itself feel old trying to keep up with the agile mind of a 9 year old file-sharer.
Like most publications, here at TorrentFreak we regularly interview adults. However, when a recent conversation with a child turned to file-sharing, we took the opportunity to give the P2P kids a voice. We had a little chat with a 9 year old girl who wants to be called “Hannah” (after Hannah Montana) and she talks to us about LimeWire, BEBO, YouTube and her perception of the rights and wrongs of copying - even her frustrations with DRM.
“Never work with children or animals” said WC Fields. TorrentFreak takes a chance:
TF. Hi Hannah! How old are you?
- I’m 10 in 12 days
TF. What sort of music are you listening to right now?
Sean Kingstone, Shayne Ward and High School Musical 2
TF. Where did you first get into music?
- On the music channels, on MTV.
TF. When did you get a PC?
- People had computers but I couldn’t go on them but my Dad bought me one last year. I have internet.
TF. What do you do on the internet?
- MSN, talking to friends and cousins, games and dressing-up games [dolls]
TF. When did you first start using the internet to get music?
- My cousin showed me YouTube and then LimeWire and I was like “whoa cool!”
TF. What was cool about it?
- 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.
TF. Ok…I see….Do you get music from anywhere else?
- My cousin gets it from BEBO. She copies it from other people’s pages and puts it on her own.
TF. Do you think it’s ok to copy the music?
- Yes it’s ok because she only does it to make her page better.
TF. So you’re sure that it’s ok to copy it? What do you think about copying?
- 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.
TF. 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?
- Why would they put it [music] on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?
TF. 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?
- W.E! [whatever!]
TF. Come on, play along with me. What would you say if he did?
- 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.
TF. What do you think might happen if you didn’t pay him?
- Nothing. I’m too young to be charged by the government so he can’t charge me.
TF. Would you carry on using LimeWire after he sent the letter?
- Yeah!
TF. Why?
- Because you can get good albums off there. Duh!! My CD’s don’t work in my mp3 player so LimeWire is the only way to do it. I bought High School Musical 2 on CD but it won’t go on my mp3 [player]
TF. How would you make LimeWire better?
- To speak to the person sending the music to make sure they send the right one, sometimes they send stuff that doesn’t even play.
TF. Do you know what a pirate is?
- They have parrots [effects 'arrrrr']
TF. Do you think its legal or illegal to copy a CD or DVD?
- Some men right, they sell you a DVD at the market but when you get home it doesn’t play, that’s illegal.
TF. Why is it illegal?
- Duh!! Because they tell you it works and when you get it home it’s rubbish and jumps in the middle and its a waste of money!
TF. Do you think you should be paying for stuff off LimeWire? You have to buy CD’s from the shop…
- You have to pay for CD’s because they’re actually on a disc not on the computer. My cousin, right, she uses LimeWire when she doesn’t have any money for CDs.
TF. Did you ever download anything by anybody and then go to see them?
- I got stuff by Lee Ryan and Simon Webbe and then I went to see Blue. Why don’t you ask me what my favorite hobby is?
TF. Ok, what’s your favorite hobby?
- Dancing to music, it’s fun!!
Thankyou, Hannah. That’s it! Have a nice birthday!
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i think she is spoild and not to be mean but if i was her mom i could have not have handle her.
[quote comment="242486"]i think she is spoild and not to be mean but if i was her mom i could have not have handle her.[/quote]
[quote comment="227419"]HEY FANS HOW ARE YOU. LOOK 9 YEAR OLD SHUT UP. CUS YOU ARE NOT HANNAH MONTANA YOU ARE A liar. I Am not HANNAH MONTANA OK I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP SAYING THEY ARE THE REAL HANNAH MONTANA CUS YOU ARE NOT i AM not
P.S I PROMIES I AM HANNAH MONTANA[/quote]
you are a little bich. you are not hannah montana
I’m 9 ad you Guys are all wrong. We’re not that bad. What’s really in our minds depends on the kids and their parents. If their good kids the’ll be good. if their bad kids they’ll be bad.
oh and by the way that was not hannah montana
Taylor is right.:p
You mother f**kers!!
That was pointless.If u were so sad that u had nothing intresting then y did u just put another laim article on.People don’t go on this website to waist their time with this stuff.If I told u I used Lime Wire would u make me a fake inteerveiw that would be the 3rd most pythetic thing ever.The 1st pythetic thing is u,the 2nd pythetic thing is the fake article trash.I bet my websitre is better go to “www.disney.com”.
It sounds like the kids at my school. One of them tried to argue with me that downloading music was legal and that Limewire didn’t require Internet. Dumbass.
Limewire Rule #1 : If the cops call, then wipe your hard drive with a disk cleaner tool.
Rule #2: If you don’t have a disk cleaner, then just throw it in the microwave for 20 minutes.
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TF: thanks for the article, very interesting! don’t listen to the haters.
For you people who think a 9/10 year old doesn’t talk like that…you don’t get around kids much do you? (except maybe your own.) 10 is the new 13! My seven year old could give similar responses and easily use limewire if I showed her the ropes. (She’s very computer literate.) But I’m not going to teach her because my ISP limits me! (And the possibility of my hard drive being full of barbie songs doesn’t thrill me…) BTW, I have six kids.
23,21,18,16,14 and 7. All the teens and 21 year old are into limewire. Me and the 18 year old use utorrent, I also use azeurs (sp.) and my 23 year, well, he probably uses everything. (he has speed, i don’t).
It was a cute article with a fresh view…everyone can’t like everything…I enjoyed it..made me smile…would be interesting to compare interviews from each age group or generation side by side just for kicks…(any 70 year olds out there to interview?)
my parrot it calling me…
um.. i think this is made up.
maybe it isn’t..
idk. something about it is strange.
pretty fake orr?? lol..
pretty sure it is aii…
i dnt fink a 9 yr old wuld giv answers like dat aii…
its so scary to think people are actually usin a lil 9 yr olds convo with a pedo as a way of proving a point…
eek….
um…btw evry1 haz a diff point of view on things…u cant just write things and expect people to all think the same…
It dusnt even matter how old this chikk is, it matters how mature she is. It dus sound like a fake convo but yer just sayin…
seriously some people have got to get a life….lol..
this is gettin rediculuuzzz..
just like lettin pplz no..
um there is such thing as called outside…hu ever puts this much effort into doin this kinda stuff is a geekmister aii lol…
just leave it to the pros and let them do the work….
if u dnt like how people are downloading things…then get over it, its ur point of view, good on ya.
and if u dnt mind downloadin stuff, good on ya aswell.
i accidently found this site, cuz i was lookin for a movie review lol…and yer….
Im 9 and you guys are waaaaayyyy off
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