The plethora of legal music options online has prompted Internet users in the UK to cut down on their P2P ways. According to an annual report from media and technology research firm The Leading Question, monthly file sharing has dropped among all users since the last national survey in 2007. The drop is particularly significant among teens, where file-sharing has declined by a third. Still, users continue to share music—just a little more the old-fashioned way.
The Leading Question conducted face-to-face interviews with a thousand “music fans” in the UK between the ages of 14 and 64, excluding non-broadband users and those without mobile phones. As of January 2009, 17 percent of the group reported file sharing regularly (on a monthly basis), down from 22 percent in December 2007.
In the 14-18 age group, the numbers were even more dramatic. While 42 percent of the teenage demographic reported using P2P to get their music in December of 2007, only 26 percent did so this January.
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