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Reference

Title: Determinants of music copyright violations on the university campus
Author: Eric P Chiang [Florida Atlantic University], Djeto Assane [University of Nevada Las Vegas]
Source:

Journal of Cultural Economics  31, no. 3: 187-204  
Year: 2007

Details

Subject/Type: Piracy
Focus: Music
Country/Territory: United States of America
Objective: To study university students' attitudes toward music piracy, and in particular how the use of enforcement and economic incentives affect subsequent behaviour.
Sample: 472 university students
Methodology: Survey

Main Findings

58% of the respondents admitted to file sharing. The principal reasons given for file sharing were, in order of importance: cost, time (faster to acquire music via file sharing) and variety (file sharing offering larger access to songs). Most students (76%) do not support shutting down file-sharing services and 58%, 49% and 40% consider file-sharing unfair to music artists, music distributors and music stores, respectively. Students assessed the probability of being legally prosecuted for music piracy as quite low (13%).

Students are both sensitive to risk and to economic incentives: the higher the risk of being apprehended, the lower the percentage of file-shared music is relative to the total music collections; the lower the willingness to pay, the higher the percentage of file-shared music is relative to the total music collection.

While economic incentives and risk perceptions alone are unlikely to fully reverse the propensity to engage in file sharing, a combination of effective enforcement actions and attractive legal alternatives with sufficiently large selections and low prices could go a long way towards reducing piracy.

[Date Added: Aug 12, 2008 ]

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