Possibilities of Digital Piracy Management in Music Records Industry

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• 作者：Marius Akulavičius^a ; Edverdas Vaclovas Bartkus^b ; ^{edvardas.bartkus@ktu.lt" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Digital Piracy ; Digital Piracy Management ; Music Industry.
• 刊名：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：1 December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：213
• 期：Complete
• 页码：716-721
• 全文大小：191 K

文摘

Digital piracy, particularly for its execution-friendly technological environment, is a relevant problem in many countries. Over the past two decades due to the rapid expansion of the Internet and content products (music, movies, books and software) digital distribution, the number of users copying and distributing these products without the legal consent of their authors is increasing - a phenomenon known as digital piracy. Music industry has the largest scale of digital piracy over the all-creative content business, related to very convenient reproduction and distribution of illegal music records. The main purpose of the paper is to determine how music authors evaluate possibilities of digital piracy management in the digital space. Survey with recorded digital music customers and interview with recorded digital music authors are provided to achieve the goal. Based on the results the idea of the management of digital piracy in the music records industry, which is oriented for maximizing commercial benefits of the introduction of the music records to consumers for the authors of the music records, was analyzed.