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Report: Number of U.S. Music Downloaders Up 27%

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 26, 2004 - 3:19am.
Washington -- The number of online Americans who have downloaded music from the Internet -- both via file-sharing networks like Kazaa and purchased downloads through retailers like iTunes -- increased from 18 million to 23 million between November 2003 and March 2004, according to data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Pew survey also found that 14% of online Americans say that they used to download files but don't anymore, with a third of these citing fear of lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Pew report also cited ComScore measurement data that shows that between November 2003 and February 2004 alone, more than 5 million fewer people were actively running the Kazaa file-sharing application. However, this was tempered by a rise in the use of smaller services including iMesh, BitTorrent and eMule. Overall, 31% of downloaders said they use file-sharing networks; 17% reported having purchased downloads via iTunes or other retailers, while the rest found free tracks on musicians' sites or used e-mail or instant messaging to trade songs.
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