This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent …

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

Several empirical studies exist that measure the impact of filesharing services on music sales, and most suggest that … substituted out of music and into movies. This paper uses micro-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (1998 through 2003 …) to test for this possible substitution effect. The data do not support the hypothesis that music consumers spent less on …

exists that allows for the presence of a profit maximizing music industry as an intermediary between the creators of … buying music. The model provides testable price and demand equations and suggests that file sharing may have been undertaken … by consumers who were previously not in the market for music …

sharing and the parallel fall in music industry revenue as a natural experiment in radically reduced copyright protection … analysis, I show that the sharp decline in music industry revenue that paralleled the rise of file sharing was associated … file sharing began was associated with a net increase in the number of new hit songs, ceteris paribus. Thus, for the music …