Digital Piracy, Teens, and the Source of Advice: An Experimental Study

摘要: The objective of our paper is to determine the effect piracy advice from various sources on behavior music consumer. Specifically, does it matter if source has a stake in outcome decision? Does social tie with advisee? Accordingly, we conduct laboratory experiment using teenagers and their parents as subjects, increasing realism context by sampling potential pirates parents. Treatments represent (e.g., teen's parent, record label, or an external regulator). Subjects make decisions playing new experimental game—The Piracy Game—extended volunteer's dilemma literature. Interestingly, subjects respond negatively labels over time, purchasing fewer songs compared other such subject's parent. existence between adviser subject assists mitigating piracy, especially when par...