Criminal Friends of Entertainment: Analysing Results from Recent Peer-to-Peer Surveys

Hietanen, Herkko

doi:10.2966/scrip.050108.31

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“…This calls into question the effectiveness of high-profile legal action on behalf of record labels and movie studios. Although this finding contradicts evidence from select cross-country analyses (Andrés (2006) and Walls (2008)) that identify a significant limiting effect on piracy that stems from the strength of judicial enforcement of intellectual property rights, it is consistent with a growing number of other studies (such as Cohen & Cornwell, 1989;Fetto, 2000;Hietanen, Huttunen & Kokkinen, 2008;Lysonski & Durvasula, 2008;Altschuller & Benbunan-Fich, 2009) which find consumers to be largely unconcerned by the negative legal consequences of piracy despite an awareness of the illegality of their actions.…”

Section: General Resultssupporting

confidence: 44%

Sailing in the same ship? Differences in factors motivating piracy of music and movie content

Cox¹,

Collins²

2014

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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This study presents indicative evidence on the impact of a range of consumer attitudes and characteristics upon the consumption of pirated music and movie files. Consumers of both types of content are analyzed using a survey sample consisting of over 6,100 observations. The study finds that demographic factors and attitudes towards downloaded content have the greatest influence on the consumption of pirated material, while awareness of legality and the threat of punishment affect consumption to a lesser extent. The findings of this study also suggest several conspicuous contrasts in the consumption of illegally downloaded music and movie files. Prolific music downloaders typically demonstrate a greater propensity to substitute legal content for pirated materials, while heavy movie downloaders demonstrate a greater willingness to pay for legal alternatives and are deterred to a greater extent by an awareness of negative effects of piracy upon the movie industry.

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Section: General Resultssupporting

confidence: 44%

Sailing in the same ship? Differences in factors motivating piracy of music and movie content

Cox¹,

Collins²

2014

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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“…Evidence from the business, economics and sociology literatures is inconclusive regarding the behavioural relationship between file-sharing and physical or online acquisition of non-infringing content (Bhattacharjee et al, 2006; Harris and Dumas, 2009; Hietanen et al, 2008; Holsapple et al, 2008; Ingram and Hinduja, 2008; Li and Nergadze, 2009; Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf, 2007; Plowman and Goode, 2009). The substitution approach to estimating the reduction of revenues resulting from file-sharing or their restoration as a result of efforts to foreclose file-sharing employs standard economic theory of demand substitution – when two similar goods are available in the market, a decline in the price of one will lead to an increase in the quantity demanded of the less expensive good and a ‘substitution’, that is, a reduction in the quantity demanded of the other.…”

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“…… By nature these models cannot capture the complexities of how markets for IPR--protected goods function in the real world' (WIPO 2009: 5). Thus, evidence from the business and economics literature is inconclusive regarding the behavioural relationship between file sharing and physical or online acquisition of non--infringing content (Bhattacharjee, et al 2006;Hietanen, et al 2008;Oberholzer--Gee and Strumpf 2007). Experimental studies in social psychology have focussed on the relationships between reported intentions and actual behaviour and sociological studies have examined propensities towards various forms of 'deviant' behaviour (Harris and Dumas 2009;Holsapple, et al 2008;Ingram and Hinduja 2008;Li and Nergadze 2009;Liao, et al 2010;Plowman and Goode 2009), but these also yield inconclusive evidence.…”

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Copyright infringement online: The case of the Digital Economy Act judicial review in the United Kingdom

Mansell

Steinmueller

2013

New Media & Society

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The proportionality of the UK Digital Economy Act 2010 which aims to curtail illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing is examined in this paper in the light of changes in online norms and culture. Based on an analysis of recent studies and a critical reflection on the nature of changes in digital media production and file-sharing behaviour, we conclude that the Digital Economy Act introduces disproportionate social costs for UK Internet users, with uncertain prospects for improving creative industry revenues. The wider implications of these developments for the emerging online culture are also considered.

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“…The “three strikes” approach targets the end‐users rather than the professionals. This in itself is not particularly new, as shows the huge number of trials held against citizens sharing files without the right holders' consent (Hietanen et al , 2008). Our assumption with the graduated response is that its pedagogy consists, from an economic point of view, in raising the cost of copyright infringement for internet users.…”

Section: The Graduated Response's Principles and Its Targeting Of The Consumersmentioning

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Graduated response beyond the copyright balance: why and how the French HADOPI takes consumers as targets

Ranaivoson

Lorrain

2012

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the HADOPI Law adopted in France in 2009. It aims to focus on two aspects of the law: the graduated response and the certification of a “legal” offer. It also aims to describe both, analyze their rationale and discuss their likely impact.Design/methodology/approachThe paper combines legal and economic approaches. The legal debates have been analyzed and transcribed in a casual discourse. Economic analysis is used to understand the rationale of the law. Both approaches are used to point out the limitations of the law.FindingsThe paper shows that the graduated response and the certification of a “legal” offer both target consumers. The former aims at deterring file sharing, the latter aims at guiding consumers towards “legal” services. However, the graduated response's efficiency is dubious; the certification raises the issue of defining what is legal. Both mechanisms destabilize the French copyright law by putting more pressure on ISPs and online services. Targeting consumers in the name of copyright may cause a rejection of copyright as a whole.Practical implicationsThe HADOPI Law is considered a pioneer in the field of copyright enforcement, especially as a first application of the graduated response. The topic is therefore of premier importance for copyright at global level.Originality/valueThe paper is the first to combine economic and legal approaches to analyze the graduated response. It deals with the certification of “legal” services, which has only rarely been studied. The link between both mechanisms has never been considered before.

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Criminal Friends of Entertainment: Analysing Results from Recent Peer-to-Peer Surveys

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Sailing in the same ship? Differences in factors motivating piracy of music and movie content

Sailing in the same ship? Differences in factors motivating piracy of music and movie content

Copyright infringement online: The case of the Digital Economy Act judicial review in the United Kingdom

Graduated response beyond the copyright balance: why and how the French HADOPI takes consumers as targets

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