The nation’s fledgling copyrighted online music distributors may have reason to be excited after learning that over half of Taiwanese Internet users are willing to pay for legal downloads of online music, according to a survey released by online market research firm InsightXplorer yesterday.
The survey, which polled 1,000 Internet users through its cyber panel last October, showed that as many as 58.9 percent of people expressed a willingness to pay for online music services via distributors that legally obtain copyrights from record labels.
Up to 74.2 percent of this group of people has already bought music legally online, the survey said, and Internet users between 21 years old and 30 years old express a higher inclination to pay than others.
A more interesting finding is that 51.5 percent of people are considering switching from the lower-cost but copyright-disputed peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services to copyright online music services that charge fees, the poll said.
“The result showed that more and more people have the concept that users must pay,” InsightXplorer’s chief executive officer Jason Chiang (江義予) said in a statement released yesterday.
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