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Teaching Digital Piracy

Michael R. Ward
University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics

July 2007

Abstract:
US education policy encourages the use of computers and the Internet at both the college and high school levels. As a consequence, students have had better access to technologies to illicitly share copyrighted music, causing a decline in 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 high schools received subsidies for Internet connections and it fell faster where college enrollment was higher. This intervention in education policy could have contributed greatly to the decline in the music industry.

Keywords: Music, Internet, Education, Illicit Behavior

JEL Classifications: L82, O34, H3

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Date posted: April 30, 2007 ; Last revised: July 09, 2007

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Ward, Michael R., Teaching Digital Piracy (July 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=983200

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