Impact of Piracy on Music Sales in Digital Music Transformation - A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

In the transformation of music from analog to digital, there are a lot changes on how music can be obtained, driven by technological advancement. Sadly, with the many feature and easiness of use in digital music bestowed by new technology, also comes with the rampart of music piracy. Whether unknowingly or intentional, this piracy has raised concern the declining of music sales in the recent years. Many researches have studied about the relation of piracy and its impact on music sales, but those studies some has a contradictory result. This research tries to study on those phenomena by making a comprehensive systematic literature review on research that studies on the impact of piracy on music sales in digital music transformation in hope to find a more clear and thorough knowledge regarding this matter.