Conflicting data has emerged in the past few weeks about the rate of music downloading since the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) lawsuits against individual users began in September.  A recent study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported a decrease in downloading since September, but two other reports – one by BayTSP, an organization in Silicon Valley, and another by Big Champagne in Los Angeles – found vastly different results.  Big Champagne even reported a 35% increase in P2P downloading from 2002 to 2003.  Check out John Palfrey’s remarks on the murky data in a recent report in Business Week, and read another story by the Associated Press.