Impact of Legal Threats on Online Music Sharing Activity: An Analysis of Music Industry Legal Actions

Bhattacharjee, Sudip; Gopal, Ram D.; Lertwachara, Kaveepan; Marsden, James R.

doi:10.1086/501085

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“…Bhattacharjee, Gopal, Lertwachara and Marsden (2006) studied the impact of legal action against online music sharing and conclude that lawsuits slow down file-sharing behavior. Dejean et al (2010) have studied the impact of the Hadopi Act on the piracy behavior of the French Internet user.…”

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The Hadopi Act vs. the Global License as a Psychological Game

Oguer¹

2011

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This article examines the digital industry's decision to enforce the Hadopi Act rather than support the global license to address the concerns resulting from the piracy of digital materials through Internet online sharing networks. Using a game-theoretic analysis and applying Nash equilibrium, it is determined that the situation does not justify the digital industry's choice of adopting the Hadopi Act. By introducing a psychological game-theoretic approach to take into account the awareness campaign of the negative impact of piracy on digital industry's business, it was determined that the choice of the Hadopi Act is appropriate if the Internet potential pirate is sufficiently guilt averse.

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The Hadopi Act vs. the Global License as a Psychological Game

Oguer¹

2011

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“…In June of 2003 the organization representing American record companies, the RIAA, officially announced that it was gathering evidence for future lawsuits against individual pirates, and in September it began to bring suit against individuals. Bhattacharjee et al (2006) demonstrate that this threat of lawsuits reduced piracy. Therefore, we cannot even be sure that the 2003 summer piracy decline was not partially or completely an artifact of sui generis piracy politics.…”

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A Replication of Four Quasi-Experiments and Three Facts from ‘The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis’ (Journal of Political Economy, 2007)

Liebowitz

2017

Economics

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The influential piracy paper by Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf, although mainly based on proprietary data, contained an “important complement” to the main results, consisting of four “quasi-experiments” using publicly available data. This replication examines all of these quasi-experiments by using identical data and statistical methods where possible, as well as sometimes extending or augmenting the data or methods. This study concludes that the quasi-experiments performed by OS each contain important errors, oversights or inconsistencies that most often, but not completely, overturn the results claimed in the original OS article.

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“…Beyond these legislative interventions, Reimers (2014) shows that industry-led notice and takedown strategies for eBooks can be effective at increasing legal sales, and Bhattacharjee et al (2006) find that RIAA lawsuits lowered levels of file sharing, with a much greater impact on high-level sharers.…”

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