“You Guys Who Download Stuff Illegally, Don’t You Ever Feel Guilty?”: Initial Analysis of Changes in Practices and Values Among Swedish Illegal File Sharers 2007-2012
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This study investigates self-reported practices and values of Internet-based cultural consumption in relation to illegal file sharing in Sweden during 2007-2012. It is based on more than 1.000 posts in an Internet discussion forum and focuses on expressed senses of guilt, whether file sharing is right or wrong, buying media, and dimensions of stakeholders and media genres. This note presents work-in-progress results of initial quantitative analysis, suggesting that no changes in feelings of guilt were detected during the time period, despite legislative changes. More posts report to now buy media, while there at the same time is an increase in posts expressing that file sharing, despite its current illegal status, is a right thing to do. A deeper qualitative analysis is needed to further understand the complexity of changes in file sharers’ justifications for what content to acquire through illegal file sharing, what they choose to pay for – and why.
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