Mary Madden

Artists and musicians are enthusiastic internet users and they believe the internet helps them make and sell their work.

As usual, the recording industry, the technology sector, consumer advocates and policy makers are having difficulty finding common ground on this issue, to say the least. But how do the musicians...

Between March 15 and April 15 of this year, 2,755 musicians and songwriters responded to a Web-based survey about the way they use the Internet and their views on a host of public policy questions related to copyright and music file-sharing on the In...

14% of the 128 million American adults now online report that they downloaded music at one time, but no longer do so. About a third of these former music downloaders - 6 million adults - say that the RIAA’s tactics are the reason they stopped.

The percentage of American adult Internet users who say they download music drops by half and the usage of some file-sharing applications declines.

This report analyzes the responses of more than 64,000 Americans to phone surveys in the past three years. It finds that 63% of U.S. adults now are online and many of them have built Internet use into their lives in practical ways.

The number of American adults downloading music continues to grow and two-thirds of those who download or share files say they don't care whether the files are copyrighted or not.