A campaign urging parents to become aware of their children’s music downloading habits has been launched.

[A] leaflet – Young People, Music and the Internet: A Guide for Parents about P2P, file-sharing and downloading – will be published in 19 countries and eight languages.

“We believe most parents have no idea how file-sharing works,” said Stephen Carrick-Davies, CEO of Childnet.

The campaign has been welcomed by the UK music industry.

“We are committed to working with parents to make them aware of the dangers of illegal downloading,” said Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

While I agree that “Parents need to get up to speed with what their children are doing online.” I’m somewhat dissappointed that the main target of such a campaign is filesharing. And the same goes for the entire BBC article. There are any number of activities which your children could be engaging in (and this isn’t limited to the ‘net) which are far more dangerous than swapping music – and neither the campaign, or the BBC coverage, seem to be acknowledging that.

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