File-Sharing: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?

摘要: The impact of copying, in the form file-sharing, has become a stormy policy issue. Previous copying technologies have mostly failed to live up extravagant predictions harm that arose with those new although precise measurements copying's was rarely accomplished or attempted. One impediment measuring prior difficulty activity. File-sharing is newest technology for making copies and carries it possibility more measurement than been possible past. This paper examines file-sharing activity, theory file-sharing's likely impact, file-sharing. Analysis various data sets indicate they do not yet their hoped precision. Data limitations withstanding, evidence seems compelling responsible recent large decline CD sales which blamed.