Study: Majority of Internet Users Pony Up for Online Content
Study: Majority of Internet Users Pony Up for Online Content
Posted 12/30/2010 at 9:32am
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A new study by Pew Internet finds that nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of Internet users have paid to download or access online content of some kind, whether it's buying music or paying for a news subscription to everything in between.
The survey pinged 755 Internet users between October 28 and November 1 of this year. They were asked about 15 different kinds of online goods or services that could be purchased or accessed only after a payment.
There was a tie for the top spot between digital music and software, both of which had been paid for at some point by 33 percent of respondents. After that, mobile apps proved the most popular with 21 percent. Down at the bottom of the list was adult content, with only 2 percent fessing up to having paid for it.
All told, Internet users spend nearly $50/month on average to download or access material, Pew Internet says.
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ShyLinuxGuy
December 30, 2010 at 5:51pm
I kind of agree with the sample size: it is too small. But, I bet that if a larger sample was taken, say on the next Census perhaps or by the big survey companies *WITHOUT GETTING PAID BY THE ____AA's*, the number of people who buy online content would probably hover at (or above) 65%--MORE than the RIAA and MPAA would like to claim it to be. If you had these two handling the surveys, there would definitely be some number manipulation going on in the background, because they want everyone to believe more people steal content than buy content. I'm not saying that piracy is nonexistent--it is FAR from that--but it gets OVER-exaggerated by these whiny-baby organizations. They'd love nothing more than to say .05% buy content rather than take for free.
plx566
December 30, 2010 at 5:02pm
755 users is not a good enough sample size to even consider this an acurate report. The internet has millions of users, 755 of them can not account for the actions of millions. If this were more towards the hundred thousands, maybe it would be more plausable a sample size. Heck, even just 50k would be fine. But 755? Go back out there and get more information.
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