This paper surveys the extant literature on the impact of file-sharing on the recording industry. It begins by examining the theory behind the impact of file-sharing. One novelty from this analysis is the finding that the effect of ‘sampling’ of copyrighted materials can be expected to have...

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...

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...