The proliferation of free on-demand music streaming services (eg, Spotify) is offsetting the
traditional revenue sources (eg, purchases of downloads or CDs) of the music industry. In …

This paper sets out to explain how adolescents interpret piracy. Digital piracy is one of the
most important risk behaviours mediated by new media to be found among adolescents. It is …

ABSTRACT8 Cybercrimes have an adverse impact on the reputation and economy of a
nation. This paper investigates the factors that affect the frequency of cybercrime originating …

This paper deals with the issue of IT productivity paradox and examines the influence of IT
capital and IT institution on the national innovation productivity. Applying North's neo …

The rapid development of information and communication technology has made it for people
to pirate digital contents easily and quickly. Although many studies have investigated the …

This study is intended to explore the effect of individualism on intellectual property rights
protection. Using data from 92 countries, we found out that individualism index has positive …

Novelty seeking behavior constitutes one of the primary consumer motivations for
purchasing pirated content and has as such become one of the most important factors in …

While online shop** expenditures have been increasing in both developed and
develo** economies, they still account for a small share of total retail sales. Significant …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide the results of the content analysis of the 572
collected articles. After having read all the articles, and based upon the categorization …

This paper empirically investigates and characterizes users of recorded music, both
downloaders and purchasers. To this end we analyse the role of the variables defining the …