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Reference
Title: | Downloading Free Music: Internet music lovers don't think it's stealing |
Author: | Amanda Lenhart, Susannah Fox [Pew Internet & American Life Project] |
Source: | The Pew Internet & American Life Project's Online Music Report |
Year: | 2000 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Piracy |
Focus: | Music |
Country/Territory: | United States of America |
Objective: | To determine attitudes and behaviour towards music downloading. |
Sample: | 12.751 adults (6.413 of which were Internet users and 238 of which download music) |
Methodology: | Telephone interviews |
Main Findings
78% of Internet users who download music do not consider it to be stealing, and 61% do not care if the music is protected by copyright. 21% say they have bought a CD of the music sampled on the Internet "most of the time". 86% download music they are familiar with and 69% download new music by artists they know.
[Date Added: Aug 12, 2008 ]