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Post subject: Study finds: The RIAA's fear induction is working.
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Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14% of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet, a survey finds.
But the overall percentage of people who say they currently do so has inched back up since November, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a study Sunday.
A third of the former downloaders - nearly 6 million - say they stopped because of the highly publicized lawsuits filed by the recording industry since last summer against more than 1,000 users.
Many of the lawsuits have led to settlements of thousands of dollars each. Legally, recording labels can demand $150,000 per song for copyright infringement.
Men and users ages 18-29 were the ones most likely to stop, the survey finds.
The study does not distinguish between music downloaded illegally and songs bought through authorized sites such as iTunes. Seventeen percent of the current downloaders did say they are using paid services, though not necessarily as their exclusive source of online music.
Among those who have never downloaded music, three in five users - women more likely than men - say the lawsuits are enough to persuade them never to do so.
Even many of those still downloading music - 38% - say they are doing so less frequently because of the lawsuits.
Nonetheless, the random telephone-based study conducted in February finds that 18 percent of Internet users say they now download music over the Internet, an increase from 14% in a pre-Christmas survey.
And the percentage of Internet users who say they share their music, video and other files with others over the Internet increased to 23 percent in February, from 20 percent in the Nov. 18-Dec. 14 survey.
Still both sets of numbers reflect decreases from last Spring.
The February study of 1,371 Internet users has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
odd, i've actually started downloading some tunes for the first time since napster's heyday due to the likelihood of me doing a lot of computer-related work for a friend this summer and needing some music to help pass the time...all that i download is anime and video game background music that i can't go out and buy without extended effort, and while that doesn't make it legal, it's a fair enough tradeoff in my eyes...
hopefully in my case i can get away with it since it takes HALF AN HOUR to download a song... _________________ "Life's a journey, not a destination..." -Aerosmith ('Amazing')
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Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:14 am
Goldfinger2K
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Kazaa lite RIAA BIATCHES!
Plus i move all of my music to a separate folder that my shared folder.
The only things I share are taped video clips that you can't buy anyways.
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Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:27 am
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KaZaA crashes my computer. That's why I don't download anymore. Though if I did, I would only share unrelease Ben Folds tracks, because they kickass, can't be bought, and should deffinitely be heard. Plus Ben is all for the dling music thing, since it gets people excited about music. But I own all of his legally anyway, so whatever I have on my computer is allowed.
Intesting to note, CD sales were up 10% when Napster was in it's prime. _________________ anime is teh s uck
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Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:11 pm
dougisfunny
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I don't use kazaa...or the lite version
I was never much into d/ling music, except game remixes, off ocremix
and I believe those are public license, or something to that effect _________________ The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:39 pm
Chibi_Zero
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Wow... One Thing says Music Downloads are going down and another says it's going up.... which to believe... _________________ "I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept." - Calvin
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Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:59 pm
Zechs
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Is it only me or has ChibiZero's avatar never worked... _________________ Bang.
Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:17 pm
Andromaton
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Chibi_Zero wrote:
Wow... One Thing says Music Downloads are going down and another says it's going up.... which to believe...
they mean that illegal (ie. kazaa) downloads are down and legal (ie. itunes) downloads are up.
Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:43 pm
dougisfunny
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Zechs wrote:
Is it only me or has ChibiZero's avatar never worked...
it used to work, it hasn't for a while now though... _________________ The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:21 am
Chibi_Zero
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yeah I've notcied that it hasn't worked... Seems some how it was deleted... _________________ "I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept." - Calvin
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Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:19 am
Andromaton
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dougisfunny wrote:
I don't use kazaa...or the lite version
I was never much into d/ling music, except game remixes, off ocremix
and I believe those are public license, or something to that effect
I only got into downloading big name music when I'd had my all cd's stolen for the 3rd time (car broken into twice -- for a grand total of well over 500 cd's) and the police told me that though they got fingerprints the person who did it was probably an illegal and so they wouldn't be able to catch them.
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:59 am
Daikun
Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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UPDATE: People don't seem to care about prices anymore...
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U.S. music consumers are sharply increasing their interest in legal downloads and diminishing their use of free song-swapping over the Internet, a survey showed.
The survey by the NPD Group found about five percent of those who have purchased music CDs also used a legal Internet service to purchase music in the first quarter of 2004, or triple the percentage in the same period a year ago.
Among music buyers who purchased both CDs and a song download from a legal service, the likelihood that they also downloaded a song illegally fell dramatically, from 64 percent last year to 42 percent in 2004, the survey found.
The surge in use of legitimate online music services comes as a growing number of companies have set up sites with song downloads for roughly one dollar. At the same time, the music industry has been cracking down on file-swapping with lawsuits alleging copyright infringement.
"Paid services like iTunes and Rhapsody appear to be attracting core music buyers, which can create a firm foundation for legal digital music purchases," said Russ Crupnick, president of NPD Music.
"To date, NPD data shows that there has been a small reduction in sales of CDs; however, that decline might be offset by the overall value of the digital customer and the downturn in illegal file sharing."
Consumers who downloaded from a legal service or became paid members of subscription services showed only a small reduction in the number of CDs that they purchased at retail. The average consumer who paid for digital music as well as CDs purchased less than one fewer CD in 2003 compared to 2002, the survey found.
"Our research shows that it's the people who are really into music that are beginning to adopt paid digital services as an additional way of acquiring and enjoying music, and so far these services are living side by side with traditional CDs," Crupnick said.
"As the industry matures and digital music becomes even more main stream, it remains to be seen just how much paid digital music will affect the market for CDs."
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