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Survey: 75% of Americans Think Downloading Songs for Personal Use OK

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 29, 2004 - 2:18am.
Rochester, N.Y. -- In a recent survey on peer-to-peer music services, three in four adult Americans (75%) agreed that, while "downloading and then selling the music is piracy and should be prohibited, downloading for personal use is an innocent act and should not be prohibited." The September 2003 survey, conducted by New York-based Harris Interactive, gels with an October survey of teenagers, who said that downloading music files without paying (74%) and letting others download files from them (78%) should be legal. However, two-thirds of adults surveyed (64%) also said they believe "musicians and recording companies should get the full financial benefit of their work." Additionally, 70% of adults agreed that, "if the price of CDs was a lot lower, there would be a lot less downloading of music off the Internet." "All of this suggests that the music industry is fighting an uphill battle in winning the hearts and minds of Americans to support prohibitions against downloading," said Harris Interactive's Robert Leitman. "Their opportunity is to make the as yet unmade link in the public’s consciousness between downloading and its financial impact on musicians and recording companies."
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=434
tags: Downloads | Survey | Americans | Musics | Personal Use |



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