Digital music and online sharing

Bhattacharjee, Sudip; Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence

doi:10.1145/792704.792707

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“…The findings of this study which show a significant relationship between gender and intention to pirate software are consistent with prior research by Chiang and Assane [2], Simpson, Banerjee and Simpson [10], Siponen and Vartiainen [20], Bhattacharjee, Gopal and Sanders [26], Cronan, Foltz and Jones [27], Bachmann [28], and Kwong et al [30]. Specifically, the results reveal that males are more likely to pirate than females, which would suggest that males should be targeted in any anti-piracy education campaign.…”

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“…While Cronan, Leonard and Kreie [23] found that age was not a significant factor, Gopal and Sanders [24], Mishra, Akman and Yazici [25], Bhattacharjee, Gopal and Sanders [26] and Cronan, Foltz and Jones [27] found that younger students were more likely to pirate software than older students. In addition, Gan and Koh [16], Bachman [28], Seale, Polakowski and Schneider [29] and Kwong, Yau, Lee, Sin and Tse [30] found that age is inversely related to the amount an individual pirates software while Masrom, Ismail and Hussein [31] and Cronan and Al-Rafee [32] found a direct relationship between the age of a person and the extent to which that person may pirate.…”

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“…Males are more likely to pirate software compared to females according to Chiang and Assane [2], Simpson, Banerjee and Simpson [10], Van Belle, Macdonald and Wilson [17], Siponen and Vartiainen [20], Bhattacharjee, Gopal and Sanders [26], Cronan, Foltz and Jones [27], Bachmann [28] and Kwong et al [30]. However, Gopal and Sanders [24], Mishra, Akman and Yazici [25] and Al-Rafee and Cronan [33] found no correlation between gender and the decision to pirate software.…”

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The Demographic Factors Affecting University Students’ Intention to Pirate Software

Spark

2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract.As the requirement to use computers increases, software piracy is increasing, yet little research has been conducted in South Africa to investigate the reasons why students pirate software. This paper reports on a study on the demographic factors affecting students' intention to pirate software. The study was carried out on students at the University of the Witwatersrand using questionnaires. It was found that gender and an individual's level of study had the most significant effect on intention to pirate, with academic discipline and level of household income having the least significant effect. Educational campaigns on the ethics and consequences of piracy are recommended.

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The Demographic Factors Affecting University Students’ Intention to Pirate Software

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2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Gopal and Sanders [53] and Sundararajan [94] focus on technology deterrence in the context of piracy. Bhattacharjee et al [15], and Bhattacharjee et al [14] study how piracy may be limited using bundling strategies along with technology protection. 6 Chellappa and Shivendu [27] suggest that implementing various global standards is a way to limit losses due to piracy across geographic regions.…”

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Digital Piracy, Teens, and the Source of Advice: An Experimental Study

Hashim

Kannan²,

Maximiano³

et al. 2014

Journal of Management Information Systems

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The objective of our paper is to determine the effect of piracy advice from various sources on music consumer behavior. Specifically, does it matter if the source of advice has a stake in the outcome of the piracy decision? Does it matter if the source of advice has a social tie with the advisee? Accordingly, we conduct a lab experiment using teenagers and their parents as subjects, increasing the realism of the context by sampling potential pirates and their parents. Treatments represent various sources of piracy advice (e.g., the teen's parent, a record label, or an external regulator). Subjects make decisions playing our new experimental game -The Piracy Game -extended from the volunteer's dilemma literature. Interestingly, subjects respond negatively to advice from record labels over time, purchasing fewer songs as compared to other sources such as the subject's parent. The existence of a social tie between the advisor and the subject assists in mitigating piracy, especially when a parent is facing potential penalties due to his/her child's behavior. An external regulator, having no social tie or stake in the decision, provides the least credible source of advice, leading to the greatest amount of piracy. Our analyses not only provide managerial insights but also develop theoretical understanding of the role of social ties in the context of advice.

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“…The right to a backup of a digital movie on a DVD adds value to legal downloaders, but facilitates illegal secondary sales. Since different digital rights contribute differentially towards increasing the quality of legal digital goods, and towards facilitating piracy, a careful assessment of 2 Similar issues have been recognized in the context of channel conflict caused by Web-based channels for, among other businesses, online retailing (Viswanathan, 2005) and online brokerage (Konana et al, 2000). their relative contribution towards each is important.…”

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Are Digital Rights Valuable? Theory and Evidence from Ebook Pricing

Oestreicher-Singer

Sundararajan

2010

SSRN Journal

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The effective management of digital rights is the central challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present a new model that characterizes the value of these digital rights when products are sold both embedded in tangible physical artifacts, and as pure digital goods, and when granting rights permitted by one's digital rights management (DRM) platform may affect the extent of digital piracy. Our model indicates that in the absence of piracy, digital rights should be unrestricted, since a seller can use its pricing strategy to optimally balance sales between physical and digital goods. However, the threat of piracy limits the extent to which digital rights should be granted: the value of digital rights is determined not only by their direct effect on the quality of legal digital goods, but by a differential piracy effect that can lower a seller's pricing power. When the latter effect is sufficiently high, granting digital rights can have a detrimental effect on value -our model indicates that this kind of effect is more likely to be observed for digital rights that aim to replicate the consumption experience of physical goods, rather than enhancing a customer's digital experience. We test the predictions of our analytical model using data from the ebook industry. Our empirical evidence supports our theoretical results, showing that four separate digital rights each have an economically significant impact on ebook prices, and establishing that the digital rights which aim to replicate physical consumption while increasing the threat of piracy are the ones that have negative impact on seller value. We also show that if the pricing of a digital good is keyed off that of an existing tangible good, optimal pricing changes for the former should be more nuanced, rather than simply mirroring changes in the price of the latter, and we discuss the effect of the technological sophistication of potential customers on optimal pricing and rights management. Our results represent new evidence of the importance of an informed and judicious choice of the different digital rights granted by a DRM platform, and provide a new framework for guiding managers in industries that are progressively being digitized.

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Digital music and online sharing

Abstract: Considering the similarities and unique characteristics of online file sharing and software piracy.

Cited by 192 publications

References 7 publications

The Demographic Factors Affecting University Students’ Intention to Pirate Software

The Demographic Factors Affecting University Students’ Intention to Pirate Software

Digital Piracy, Teens, and the Source of Advice: An Experimental Study

Are Digital Rights Valuable? Theory and Evidence from Ebook Pricing

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