In case of digital goods such like music, intellectual property rights are typically not exerted by the creators … infringements (piracy). It is well known from static welfare analysis that to some extent piracy reduces the deadweight loss by … effort to a moderate level. A more rigorous fight against piracy could only be justified by negative dynamic welfare effects …

The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common …

In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the …. We conclude the guide by a discussion of the evolution of the music industry. … international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and …

copies provide information about the originals may be useful for the analysis of digital music copying. …

This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent …. In theory, piracy could crowd out legitimate sales by building file sharing capacity, but could also increase sales …

The influential piracy paper by Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf, although mainly based on proprietary data …

I quantify the effects of private-network music sharing on aggregate album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of …