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18 Million Say They Don't Download Music Anymore
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| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| quote: | 18 Million Say They Don't Download Music Anymore
POSTED: 1:14 p.m. EDT April 26, 2004
The number of American Internet users who say they download music or share files online has increased slightly, but continues to sag well below peak levels, according to research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
However, the overall number of Americans downloading music and sharing files online has increased, despite pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America against piracy.
A phone survey showed that 14 percent of online Americans say that at one time in their online lives they downloaded music files, but now they no longer do any downloading. That represents more than 17 million people. But the number of people who say they download music files increased from an estimated 18 million to 23 million since a November-December poll.
One-third of the former music downloaders -- close to 6 million Internet users -- say they have turned away from downloading because of the lawsuits brought against music file-sharers by the RIAA.
The retreat is particularly pronounced among online men, Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29, and those who have broadband connections at home.
While the RIAA legal campaign has specifically targeted Internet users who are accused of distributing copyrighted files without permission, the survey did not distinguish between legal and illicit downloading.
Among those who have never tried music downloading, 60 percent said the RIAA lawsuits would keep them from downloading music files in the future. Women with Internet access are more likely than online men to say they are deterred by the lawsuits.
The research group also looked at data from comScore Media Metrix, which showed continuing declines or stagnancy in the number of people with popular peer-to-peer file sharing applications.
Since November, comScore estimates that over 5 million fewer people are actively running KaZaa.
The number of people who say they download music online remains well below the peak levels that were seen in the spring of 2003, but there was some growth in those who reported music downloading in a February survey.
In the most recent survey, the group found that 18 percent of Internet users said they download music files. That is a modest increase from the 14 percent of Internet users who reported in a survey just before last Christmas that they downloaded music files online. But it is still considerably below the 29 percent who said they had done this in the spring of 2003.
The comScore data also shows growth since last November in usage of some of the smaller file-sharing applications, such as iMesh, BitTorrent, and eMule.
Among current music downloaders, 38 percent say they are downloading less because of the RIAA suits. In the pre-Christmas survey, we found that 27 percent of music downloaders said they had throttled back on their practices because of the RIAA suits.
Pew's national phone survey of 1,371 adult Internet users was conducted between Feb. 3 and March 1.
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Of those 18 million I wonder how many know that the majority of the money they're spending on the records goes to the greedy record labels and the RIAA. I think it's lame that so many people have been scared away by the stupid threat that the RIAA put out. |
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| Radagast |
| I don't download music. |
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| Prodigy Child |
I surpose that I could be classed as one of those 18 million, but not because of the RIAA, I just don't bother anymore, I just listen to samples on Chemical Records site or I listen to Digitally Imported, the only music I download now is the tracks and remixes in the Production forum.
So thats why, and also becuase my gay ass Kazaa Lite freezes on startup, dunno why, but oh well. |
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| sym |
| quote: | Originally posted by Prodigy Child
I surpose that I could be classed as one of those 18 million, but not because of the RIAA, I just don't bother anymore, I just listen to samples on Chemical Records site or I listen to Digitally Imported, the only music I download now is the tracks and remixes in the Production forum.
So thats why, and also becuase my gay ass Kazaa Lite freezes on startup, dunno why, but oh well. |
Kazaa Lite has been blocked by the kazaa network supposedly, you can get the new kazaa and get k-diet it removes all the adware and spyware. |
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| Vlad |
I still use Kazaa Lite habitually.
*cops read this post and start tracking my IP* |
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| placebo |
| TranceAddict does not support filesharing. |
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| Nabistai |
| The retailers take the biggest peace of the profits. The record labels do take a big part, but they need to get the money back from investments like marketing etc |
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| placebo |
| Yeah, ing artists, wanting money for their work. What a bunch of s. :rolleyes: |
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| Electronicapo1 |
| I definatly would like to see file sharing decrease, only because i feel bad for the small artist trying to get by. but as for britney spears being pissed that shes not getting enought money.... BLOW ME.:whip: |
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| icyhandofcrap |
| pahahaha Kazaa... hasnt been on my comp for 6+ months. why? its selection bites my ass. |
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| davinox |
| i download music all the time and i dont care. |
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| Dmatrox |
does justin timberlake need more cars?
does michel jackson need more surgery?
does 50 cent more bullet proof vests?
does xtina need more makeup?
no. I say, support the smaller artists, screw the ones that already make any of our's year's salary in a day. |
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