The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up
As the audience for online video continues to grow, a leading edge of internet users are migrating their viewing from their computer screens to their TV screens.
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As the audience for online video continues to grow, a leading edge of internet users are migrating their viewing from their computer screens to their TV screens.
In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself.
As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.
More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
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.
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.
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