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Reference

Title: Impact of Legal Threats on Online Music Sharing Activity: An Analysis of Music Industry Legal Actions
Author: Sudip Bhattacharjee [University of Connecticut], Ram D Gopal [University of Connecticut], Kaveepan Lertwachara [California Polytechnic State University] and James R Marsden [University of Connecticut]
Source:

Journal of Law and Economics 49, no. 1: 91-114
Year: 2006

Details

Subject/Type: Piracy
Focus: Music
Country/Territory: United States of America
Objective: To determine the impact of legal threats against individual file sharers on overall online music file sharing.
Sample: 2.056 peer-to-peer users
Methodology: Passive online tracking

Main Findings

Generally speaking, the legal threats and actions by the recording industry against (heavy) individual music sharers were found to have their intended effect: the majority of both substantial (>800 files shared) and non-substantial file sharers (<800 files shared) reduced their file sharing activities, by more than 90 percent and to a third of their original levels, respectively.

However, legal setbacks for the recording industry resulted in an upsurge of file-sharing network usage by users continuing to use these networks. Although the average overall number of files shared appears to have declined somewhat in response to the actions undertaken, music files on peer-to-peer networks still remain abundantly available.

[Date Added: Aug 12, 2008 ]

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