A study has been carried out on UK teens about how they aquire and listen to music, and has come out with the somewhat suprising result that 80% of those who used illegal file sharing services, want a legal P2P service and put a cash value on it.

They would thus be willing to pay for a monthly service which allows them to downoad tracks to their mp3 players, and transfer aorund the home in different formats; so, a DRM free subscription service!

Other things found out in the survey include

* 63% download music from illegal P2P and file-sharing networks.
* Downloaded an average of 53 tracks per month, with some admitting to as many as 5,000.
* 42% have uploaded music to others.
* Less than 50% were educated about current copyright laws.
* 90% of respondents own an MP3 player, each containing an average of 1770 tracks - 48% (842) of which have not been paid for.
* 58% have copied music from a friend's HDD.
* 60% say they would continue to buy CDs.
* An average of 59.65% of a respondent's music budget was spent on live music versus recorded music.