Almost Half of U.S. Teens Use iTunes

A new NPD report finds that most young people in the US aged between 9 and 14 years old are using paid music download services, though file-sharing networks also remain popular.

As reported by Billboard, 70 percent of young people in the age group download music in any given month - and 49 percent of young people use iTunes. 26 percent use Limewire while 16 percent download music from MySpace.

The report warns that parents don't appear to be supervising internet use on the part of their young charges, despite years of music industry litigation against individual file-sharers, including children.

The report urges the music industry to do more to popularize legal services, through pre-paid accounts and gift cards and legitimate ads-supported download sites.