Economists Examine File-Sharing and Music Sales

Music file sharing and sales displacement in the iTunes era

A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period before consumers had attractive legal digital a la carte options. The iTunes Music Store has grown quickly since its appearance in 2003, and digital music now accounts for a third of US recorded music sales. Using a new survey of University of...

Supply responses to digital distribution: Recorded music and live performances

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Ten Years of File Sharing and Its Effect on International Physical and Digital Music Sales

The Effect of Internet Piracy on Music Sales: Cross-section Evidence

We use a 1998-2002 cross-section dataset to analyze the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the record industry. The results suggest that internet piracy played a significant role in the decline in music sales during the early days of file-sharing networks.

Online Sales, Music Downloads, and the Decline of Retail Music Specialty Stores

This paper uses phonebook records of music retailers for the entire US in the years 1998 and 2002 to examine how music downloads and online sales of records have affected the entry and exit of brick and mortar music specialty retailers. Merging music stores information with data on internet activity and broadband connectedness at the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) level, with data on the n...