heard before.
For many, a short play list, not a comprehensive catalog.
Less than a third of music downloaders have more than 25 songs saved on their.
computer hard drives.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project's Online Music Report.
For release at 6:00pm Eastern on Thursday, September 28, 2000.
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• 63% of music downloaders say they have saved 25 or fewer songs to their computer.
• 19% say they have between 26 and 100 songs on their computer.
• Just 10% say they have more than 100 songs on their computer.
Napster's appeal.
The file-sharing program Napster is enormously popular with music downloaders.
More than half of them have used the software to locate and download tunes. And,.
despite the relatively small song catalogs on many music downloaders" computers,.
lots of Napster users have increased the number of music files they have downloaded.
since the company's legal troubles have been a major news story.
• 22% of Internet users, or about 21 million Americans, have downloaded music.
online.
• 54% of music downloaders, or more than 11 million Americans, have used Napster.
• 45% of music downloaders have used MP3.com.
• 69% of music downloaders have used Napster, MP3.com, or both.
• Just 7% have used Gnutella.
• In our observation, the number of files per user library on Napster has been steadily.
increasing since our June 2000 report. At that time, there were approximately 100.
songs per user library. The current average is 140 songs per user library.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project's Online Music Report.
For release at 6:00pm Eastern on Thursday, September 28, 2000.
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Main Report.
SECTION ONE: A SUMMER OF COPYRIGHT BATTLES.
Since our first online music report was released on June 8, 2000, arguments over the place of.
copyright protections on digital music have raged in court, in Congress, and in the press. The.
fundamental issue is whether Internet users should be allowed the unfettered ability to share.