Teaching Digital Piracy

Michael Ward ()

Working Papers from University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Economics

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H3 L82 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2007-07
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