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 …

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

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 …

Considering the similarities and unique characteristics of online file sharing and software piracy …