73%!!

Fully 73% of texting teens ages 16-17 have been in a car when the driver was texting.

texting while driving

driving and texting among teens

Overall, 34% of teen texters ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17.

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cells and texting

75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone, and 66% use their phones to send or receive text messages.

limiting the damage of free downloading

Through digital fingerprinting and other tracking technologies, the record labels are monitoring copyrighted content as closely as ever and are counting on two major new strategies to help them: First, is a landmark partnership with internet service providers to monitor file sharing activity and potentially cut off service to the worst offenders. Second, is a series of partnerships with universities that would incorporate music subscription fees (predicted to be less than five dollars per student) into student tuition bills.26 If successful, a similar ISP-based fee could be implemented for the general public

internet downloading could have been profit for the music industry

The industry missed an opportunity to turn informal file-sharing into a profit center when it failed to buy Napster, the first of the popular downloading services, when it had a chance in 2000.