Ipsos Reid report indicates US consumers that download music are unwilling to pay for it

Internet Business News, March 7, 2002

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Research company Ipsos Reid has published a report looking at US consumers' attitudes to downloading music.

The report has found that 84% of people in the US who have used the Internet to download music without paying for it claim they are not likely to pay for streaming or downloading music online. The report also found that 57% of individuals that download music claim not to have changed the number of CDs they buy while 24% claim to have actually increased the number of CDs bought.

The report questioned 1,112 people aged 12 and over together with a sample of 834 music downloaders of the same age.

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