The emergence of online providers aggregating illegal content from streaming platforms is rekindling the debate about online piracy. In the past, the discussion mainly focused on the impact of piracy in content industries and the effect of anti-piracy measures. But little is known about one...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that counterfeiting/piracy can help create online word-of-mouth (WOM) and through this boost demand but how powerful is such WOM? To answer this question, we conduct a descriptive study with some attempts to establish near causality. We estimate the impact of piracy...

Digital distribution channels raise many new challenges for managers in the media industries. This is particularly true for movie studios where high-value content can be stolen and released through illegitimate digital channels, even prior to the release of the movie in legal channels. In...

The success of streaming services seemed to mark the end of the two-decade-long debate about online piracy. However, the emergence of new websites aggregating and distributing illegally content from multiple streaming platforms rekindled the debate. In this paper, we are interested in...

A recent study on piracy entitled Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload: A Tale of the Long Tail? serves up the counter-intuitive claim that piracy may increase box office sales for some films. To reach this conclusion, Tale of the Long Tail uses as an "experiment" the January 2012...