Sixty-Five Percent of Internet Users Have Paid for Online Content

Sixty-Five Percent of Internet Users Have Paid for Online Content

Nearly two-thirds of internet users – 65% – have paid to download or access some kind of online content from the internet, ranging from music to games to news articles to adult material. Music, software, and apps are the most popular content that internet users have paid to access or download, although the range of paid online content is quite varied and widespread.

Read the full report Sixty-Five Percent of Internet Users Have Paid for Online Content on the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project Web site

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