Online customer reviews, considered as electronic word of mouth, have become very useful
in the era of e-commerce as they facilitate future purchase decisions. The present study …

Initially designed to protect intellectual property (IP) of digitalized information goods such as
music, games, or books, existing centralized digital rights management (DRM) systems …

Illegally downloading music through peer-to-peer networks has persisted in spite of legal
action to deter the behavior. This study examines the individual characteristics of …

Recommender systems support consumers in decision-making for selecting desired
products or services from an overloaded search space. However, this decision support …

This research commentary examines the changing landscape of digital goods, and
discusses important emerging issues for IS researchers to explore. We begin with a …

Faced with the sustained problem of piracy that costs nearly $40 billion in annual revenue
losses, the software industry has adopted a number of technical, legal, and economic …

Online digital music has changed dramatically since the emergence of Napster (in 1999), as
a file-sharing system, and the establishment of electronic commerce. The transformation of …

We demonstrate that two intertwined activities of music piracy, unauthorized obtaining and
unauthorized sharing, are differentially influenced by the same social learning environment …

Many experts believe that subscription services are the last great hope for the music
recording industry; however, the underwhelming success of existing subscription services …

Digitalization has had a tremendous effect on the music industry and consequently the size
of the industry has more than halved during the new millennium. The reason for the falling …