Forty-five percent of Americans say file sharing services should be outlawed, according to a new survey highlighted over at p2pnet.net. Those most in favor of outlawing the technology were older than fifty years of age, and most commonly lived in the Western or Southern states. “As the first generation raised on the ‘browse, sample and share’ culture of the Internet, young Americans are challenging the traditional notions of intellectual property,” says Kaan Yigit, director of the study.