Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so
many areas of our lives-from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied …

Piracy is the greatest threat facing the music industry worldwide today. This study developed
and empirically tested a model examining the antecedents of consumer attitude and …

Consumers of software often face an acquisition-mode decision, namely whether to
purchase or pirate that software. In terms of consumer welfare, consumers who pirate …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the salient factors influencing consumers' attitudes
and usage intentions towards pirated software. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this …

Led by the development and widespread application of digital technology, consumers are
able to duplicate as well as distribute digitized music products at almost no cost. Music file …

Online piracy of copyrighted digital music has become rampant as Internet bandwidth and
digital compression technologies have advanced. The music industry has suffered …

With the development of online music distribution, a number of authors argued that
independent musicians could compete on equal ground with major record labels. In this …

iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large
corporations appropriate new technologies related to recording and distribution of audio …

This article reviews prior literature to identify eleven potential concerns people may have
about the Internet. A survey is conducted to develop valid and reliable multi-item measures …

Although early notions of privacy focused on freedom from intrusion, modern privacy
concerns are primarily directed toward control of personal information. Understanding of …