The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis * Felix Oberholzer Koleman Strumpf Harvard Business School UNC Chapel Hill foberholzer@hbs.edu cigar@unc.edu March 2004 Abstract A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific
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FILE SHARING Ethical Debate with Today’s Technology (INTRO) You may have illegal content on your computer right now! File sharing has become a very large issue today in society even though it has existed for decades. It has been the recent advances in our technology that has made it main stream and in the eyes of the general public. File sharing today tests the limits of technology along with our ethics making it a fuzzy grey area. When discussing file sharing’s effect on society‚ first
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File Sharing and the Revenue of the Creative Industries Introduction File sharing hosts‚ who provide online storage to share various files ripped from media like recorded music‚ films‚ and books‚ have been considered as a type of internet piracy that threatens the creative industries‚ including films‚ music‚ software‚ and books. (Van Eijk‚ 2011) However‚ after the shutdown of Megaupload‚ one of the most popular file hosting site‚ a series of ripple effect happened‚ causing several other file sharing
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Types of file sharing Peer-to-peer file sharing Users can use software that connects in to a peer-to-peer network to search for shared files on the computers of other users (i.e. peers) connected to the network. Files of interest can then be downloaded directly from other users on the network. Typically‚ large files are broken down into smaller chunks‚ which may be obtained from multiple peers and then reassembled by the downloader. This is done while the peer is simultaneously uploading the chunks
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debate of whether or not file-sharing and illegal downloading of music is right or wrong‚ one must consider all the laws enacted to protect the original artist of the document and whether or not strict copyright laws have been breached. The fact remains that file-sharing has become one of the most popular on-line activities since the inception of Napster in 1999. In 2003 alone‚ there were more than three million users simultaneously sharing over half a billion files on what has now become the most popular
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Music and motion pictures‚ two of the most popular forms of entertainment today‚ can easily be traced back hundreds of years ago. Yet a relatively newer form of entertainment (and information) has impacted those long-established industries in as little as a few years: the internet. Recorded music‚ technically speaking‚ can be traced back to April 9th‚ 1860 with “Au Clair de la Lune” by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville . Though music existed long before this date‚ it marks the first time music
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and File Sharing File sharing started with tapes in the 1970’s and CD’s in the 1980’s but file sharing did not gain mainstream attention until Napster was invented by Shawn Fanning in 1999. Napster‚ the first large scale illegal file sharing program‚ was a peer to peer (P2P) program which allows users to trade files from one computer to another through a central program. Once Napster was released‚ it immediately gained widespread popularity. Napster was shut down in 2001 after the Recording Industry
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Assignment Network File Sharing ITT Lathrop Campus Online Class Many years ago‚ who would have ever have thought that sharing files through the network would be just as easy as say saving a file to a floppy disk‚ or to a flash drive‚ or to a CD-ROM. With network file sharing however‚ you can send the file over your network connection‚ instead of having to save the file to a storage device first and then personally hand delivering it‚ or sending it to the recipient. Some people try to file transferring
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Channel Management‚ Sales and Distribution At CEAT Tyres Team Members: L. Gowtham Submitted to Nikhil Turaga Robin Paliwal Sneha Sinha Somya Shree Kumar Prof. Rajan Mani IBS Hyderabad Contents I. Acknowledgement ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Company Snapshot .................................................................................................................
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Peer to peer downloading and file sharing is now one of‚ if not the most popular uses of the internet within today’s generation. The downloading and sharing of files takes place in networks such as Limewire‚ which provide individuals the opportunity and tools to search and download files from each other on a limitless basis. One of the prominent features that have lead to the success and popularity of this medium of obtaining music is the variety of music itself. Because of the extensive number
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