Teaching Digital Piracy
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US education policy encourages the use of computers and the Internet at both the college level and the K-12 level. As a consequence, students have had better access to technologies to illicitly share copyrighted music and divert 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 K-12 schools received subsidies for Internet connections and it fell faster where college enrollment was higher. This education intervention could have contributed greatly to the decline in the music industry. JEL Codes: L82, O34, H3
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