Lesson Spurned? Reactions of Online Music Pirates to Legal Prosecutions by the RIAA

IF 0.7 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

International Journal of Cyber Criminology Pub Date : 2007-07-01 DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.18796

Michael Bachmann

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Abstract

In 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) initiated a surge of lawsuits against peer-topeer (P2P) network users to stop them from illegally sharing music files. The main goal of this new strategy was not to dissuade individual persons from violating copyright laws, but to educate the general public about the illegality of this behavior and to deter the mass of Internet users from using the ever-emerging P2P networks to share music files (RIAA, 2003). Despite these legal efforts, the few studies conducted on online music file sharing suggest that the majority of music downloaders show little awareness of wrongdoing and that a large gap exists between the self-perception of P2P users and the deviant label assigned to them by the recording industry. This study uses recent data from the PEW Internet and American Life Project to analyze the latest shifts in the population of P2P users. Results show that the popularity of P2P networks has been steadily increasing since the sharp decline in 2003 and that the sociodemographics of file-sharing communities are changing. P2P users appear to be largely unimpressed by the legal prosecutions. Implications for the music and video industry as well as future research are discussed.

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教训拒绝吗?网络音乐盗版者对RIAA法律起诉的反应

2003年，美国唱片工业协会(RIAA)发起了一场针对P2P网络用户的诉讼，以阻止他们非法共享音乐文件。这种新策略的主要目的不是劝阻个人违反版权法，而是教育公众这种行为的非法性，并阻止大量互联网用户使用不断出现的P2P网络共享音乐文件(RIAA, 2003)。尽管有这些法律上的努力，但对在线音乐文件共享进行的少数研究表明，大多数音乐下载者对不法行为几乎没有意识到，而且P2P用户的自我认知与唱片行业给他们贴上的越轨标签之间存在着很大的差距。这项研究使用了皮尤互联网和美国生活项目的最新数据来分析P2P用户人口的最新变化。结果表明，自2003年急剧下降以来，P2P网络的普及一直在稳步增长，文件共享社区的社会人口结构正在发生变化。P2P用户似乎基本上对法律起诉无动于衷。对音乐和视频产业的启示以及未来的研究进行了讨论。

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International Journal of Cyber Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

40.00%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) is a peer reviewed online (open access) interdisciplinary journal published biannually and devoted to the study of cyber crime, cyber criminal behavior, cyber victims, cyber laws and cyber policy. IJCC is an unique Diamond open access, not for profit international journal, where the author(s) need not pay article processing charges / page charges and it is totally free for both the authors and the audience. IJCC will focus on all aspects of cyber/computer crime: Forms of Cyber Crime, Impact of cyber crimes in the real world, Policing Cyber space, International Perspectives of Cyber Crime, Developing cyber safety policy, Cyber Victims, Cyber Psychopathology, Geographical aspects of Cyber crime, Cyber offender behavior, cyber crime law, Cyber Pornography, Privacy & Anonymity on the Net, Internet Fraud and Identity Theft, Mobile Phone Safety, Human Factor of Cyber Crime and Cyber Security and Policy issues, Online Gambling, Copyright and Intellectual property Law. As the discipline of Cyber Criminology approaches the future, facing the dire need to document the literature in this rapidly changing area has become more important than ever before. The IJCC will be a nodal centre to develop and disseminate the knowledge of cyber crimes primarily from a social science perspective to the academic and lay world. The journal publishes theoretical, methodological, and applied papers, as well as book reviews. We do not publish highly technical cyber forensics / digital forensics papers and papers of descriptive / overview nature.