• by Masha Geller , July 31, 2003

First things first: After 5 years in Connecticut, MediaPost has decided to get closer to the action and move to New York City, so please update your rolodexes with our new address:

16 West 19th Street
9th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212-204-2000
All our email addresses remain the same.

We're still moving in and half our stuff is still in boxes, so give us a few days to get organized and we'll be back to business.

That said, I have some new stats on online music. A newly released data memo from The Pew Internet Project finds that two-thirds of those who download music files or share files online say they don't care whether the files are copyrighted or not.

The "Music Downloading, File-sharing and Copyright" data memo says that there are currently 35 million U.S. adults who download music files online and about 26 million who share files online.

According to the data, the downloading population has grown by approximately 5 million users since February of 2001. Young adults and students are still among the most likely to download music and share files. They're also the least likely to say they care about the copyright status of those files.

Interestingly enough, 67% of Internet users who download music and 65% of users who share files say they don't care about copyright.

Finally, Pew found that there is considerable variation in downloading and sharing behavior. Out of all Internet users, 17% download music but do not share files online, 9% share files online but do not download music, 12% both download music and share files, and 62% do not download music or share files at all.