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Teaching Digital Piracy

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  • Michael R. Ward

    (Department of Economics, University of Texas at Arlington)

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US education policy encourages the use of computers and the Internet at both the college and high school levels. As a consequence, students have had better access to technologies to illicitly share copyrighted music, causing a decline in sales from the traditional music store retail channel. Using a panel of counties over the 1994-2004 period, I find evidence that the number of music stores fell when high schools received subsidies for Internet connections and it fell faster where college enrollment was higher. This intervention in education policy could have contributed greatly to the decline in the music industry.

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  • Michael R. Ward, 2007. "Teaching Digital Piracy," Working Papers 0701, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:txa:wpaper:0701
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    Keywords

    Music; Internet; Education; Illicit Behavior;
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    JEL classification:

    • L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents

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