Online music

The Pew Research Center is using the ten-year anniversary of its Internet & American Life Project as an opportunity to release retrospective reports on selected topics. "The State of Music Online: Ten Years after Napster" is an 18-page report that looks at the dramatic changes in the music industry:

"While the music industry has been on the front lines of the battle to convert freeloaders into paying customers, their efforts have been watched closely by other digitized industries—newspapers, book publishing and Hollywood among them—who are hoping to staunch their own bleeding before it’s too late. And if the music market is any indication of how consumer expectations will evolve elsewhere, the demands for free content will extend far beyond the mere cost of the product."