Nearly everyone in the country is familiar with internet piracy; this can come in the form of downloading music, movies, software without paying. This illegal activity has spread throughout internet and many people take part in this illegal activity. In the first article that I read through looked at the effect of software piracy on music sales. This article starts off by talking about intellectual property rights of digital goods, and then explains the authors experiment. “The results suggest that, for the group of users of peer-to-peer systems, piracy reduces the probability of buying music by 35% to 65% (Zentner 1).” According to his research calculations Zentner suggests that music piracy has caused a drop in music sales of 7.8% to 14.5%. After this quick intro He goes into the formal process of how he did his research, his results, and all the different statistics that show how piracy has affected nearly every group of people in America. He talks about how the use of Napster affected the amount of files shared, and after the ban of Napster in certain areas for example universities, and surrounding areas, sales grew 6.6%. This article provides me with a lot of hard evidence about the effects of music piracy and will help support one side of the argument.
My next article talks about how the recent technology boom has been linked to the increase in illegal music piracy. “A study in 2000 reported 14% of internet users had downloaded music for free (Bhattacharjee 107).” They also report a $3.1 billion of sales losses in the music industry in 2005. This article also goes through the different demographics that are connected to the piracy of music and software. This article also includes some very key diagrams showing the process people go through when looking for music. They also connect the quality of their internet to the amount of piracy that goes on. This shows that even when someone pays more money for their internet they download more illegally. They also connect the amount of people who pay for better internet who pay subscription fee’s per month to listen to as much music as they want.
Works Cited
Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Ram D. Gopal, and G. Lawrence Sanders. "Digital Music and Online Sharing: Software Piracy 2.0." Communications of the ACM 46.7 (2003): 107-111. p107-bhattacharjee.pdf. Web. 12 Apr. 2010.
Zentner, Alejandro. "Musicindustryoct12.pdf." Economics.uchicago.edu. University of Chicago, n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2010.
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