scholarly journals Every Track You Take: Analysing the Dynamics of Song and Genre Reception Through Music Downloading

2014 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Woolhouse ◽  
James Renwick ◽  
Dan Tidhar
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2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Molteni ◽  
Andrea Ordanini

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Il Moon ◽  
Kitae Kim ◽  
Thomas Hugh Feeley ◽  
Dong-Hee Shin

Author(s):  
Alexis Koster

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">The last ten years have seen many changes in the music industry, mainly caused by Internet music downloading, legal and illegal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The traditional business model of the recording music industry, based on the sales of CDs in retail stores, seems to be on its way out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>No clear new model has emerged yet, but several trends are noticeable for the recording music industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>First, the decline of CD sales since the peak year of 2000 has accelerated, totaling 30% in the USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Second the recording music industry is going through a restructuring, marked by sell offs and mergers among the recording labels, by the disappearance of music retail stores, and by the foray of the majors in new directions, such as concerts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Finally, revenues from digital music sales are increasing, partially compensating for the decrease in CD sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Whereas the providers of content, namely the labels and the artists, can be seen as victims of music downloading, the providers of the technology have benefited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The sales of its iPod/iTunes systems have provided Apple&rsquo;s more revenues than the sales of its computers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Other manufacturers are also entering this market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Meanwhile, academics and policy makers have been studying new types of copyright licenses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>One idea is to impose a global license, paid by Internet service providers, and repaid to them by Internet users.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Many technological and legal questions must be resolved for such a scheme to become viable.</span></p>


Author(s):  
Ti Hsu ◽  
Weng Wong ◽  
Chien-Chih Wang ◽  
Yeen Ni Li ◽  
Pu Chuan Li ◽  
...  

Unlike past research on online music piracy with a focus on the economic or the legal perspective, the present study was designed to evaluate Web users’ behaviors related to the music piracy empirically. In light of the newly ratified Copyright Law in Taiwan, the behavioral intentions of Web users towards the music downloading and/or P2P file sharing were studied using a sample of 317 Taiwan’s Internet users. Results indicated that Web users were likely to reduce or modify their behaviors in order not to be in conflict with the new law. Results also showed that methods of music piracy used by respondents had nothing to do with lifestyle, but were more correlated to the Internet self-efficacy. Findings and their implications are discussed and suggestions for future work are offered in this chapter.


2005 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Crawford

The media debate surrounding music downloading has reached a point of unproductive polarisation. Much of the commentary from peer-to-peer companies on one hand, and from the music industry on the other, has been highly customised rhetoric. This rhetoric commonly uses a discourse of ‘us versus them’ as the limited frame of reference: industry versus pirates, or legitimate practices versus illegitimate practices. Such claims deny the complexity of both the music-sharing phenomenon and the copyright developments related to it, effectively obscuring any legal, philosophical and technical intricacies and masking the networked interrelationships between the production and consumption of creative works. This paper seeks to move beyond these oppositional terms to consider the emerging ‘technological ecologies’ of peer-to-peer networks, the role of encryption, copyright recontextualisation and the ‘mash-up’, and the emergence of what media theorist Bernard Schütze calls ‘remix culture’.


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordana Lalović ◽  
Saule Amirebayeva Reardon ◽  
Irena Vida ◽  
James Reardon

The increasing importance of digital piracy has prompted research on the behavioural and economics origins of illegal downloading activities. This research focuses on the potential impact of various economic, psychological and social factors on the consumer decision whether to buy or to steal music in emerging markets. These markets present specific difficulties for owners of intellectual property rights due to the high level of both downloading and ‘sharing’ of digital property. Results indicate impacts of price, downloaded music quality, ease of Internet use, attitudes toward music industry and ethical perception of music downloading on consumer purchase or pirate decision.


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