Musicians on Internet & Filesharing

reverseengineer writes "A Pew Internet & American Life survey asked (large PDF) 809 artists and 2,755 musicians, songwriters, and publishers about how they use the Internet, and whether it has been beneficial or detrimental to their success. Results (larger PDF) are quite interesting, with near 50-50 splits on a variety of questions involving fair use and filesharing. A quote from Pew's summary: 'Across the board, artists and musicians are more likely to say that the internet has made it possible for them to make more money from their art than they are to say it has made it harder to protect their work from piracy or unlawful use.' Here is the NY Times summary [ Free registration blah blah ] of the survey."

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Detailed results of the survey

[k4_pacific]

23% of respondents were not home.
54% of respondents pretended like they were not home.
20% of respondents were undecided.
6% of respondents had no front door.

There was a 3% margin of error.

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[pseudolus]

Hmmm... How ironic. I trust that the appropriate copyright permission has been sought for the above post. ;)

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure karma whoring is covered under the exceptions for fair use in copyright law.

50% of the artists LOVED the internet

[Anonymous Coward]

The other 50% couldn't manage to open the pdf file.

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[fembots]

Nah the publisher wouldn't mind since parent also included "Advertisement" before the 2nd paragraph.

no - these are musicians

[uqbar]

Really it's more like...

37% were sleeping in until 4pm
33% had their phone disconnected for non-payment last month
18% couldn't hear the phone over the drums and Marshall stacks
12% were intoxicated to the point of being temporarily incapacitated