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Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This … undertaking allows us to highlight the key empirical challenges in the field of Internet and social media economics while …
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; IP protection ; internet ; peer-to-peer ; software ; music …
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broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …
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broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …
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through Facebook and other social media. However, there is more to the Internet than the WWW. Some sources suggest that the … information from email access to shopping to social media to instant information on search engines like Google. For most persons … using the WWW, this is all that there is to the Internet and in fact, perhaps many could do with a great deal less contact …
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price and quality of service discrimination represent legitimate efforts to diversify Internet-mediated services and to …
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technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access … social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political …
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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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The Internet has evolved from Web 1.0, with static web pages and limited interactivity, to Web 2.0, with dynamic … Internet content has generally remained the same: zero. Because no transaction records the "purchase" of this content, its … value is not reflected in measured growth and productivity. To capture the contribution of the "free" Internet, we model the …
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Online copyright enforcement, in the form of either direct action against the supply-side (via website shutdowns) or the demand-side (via individual lawsuits against users), has not been very effective in reducing piracy. Regulators have therefore put forward the so called "follow the money"...
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