Software piracy: an analysis of protection strategies
Management Science
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Enticing online consumers: an extended technology acceptance perspective
Information and Management
Digital music and online sharing: software piracy 2.0?
Communications of the ACM - A game experience in every application
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
The Economic Rationale of Offering Media Files in Peer-to-Peer Networks
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7
Information Goods Pricing and Copyright Enforcement: Welfare Analysis
Information Systems Research
Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivations for consumers to shop on-line
Information and Management
File Sharing as a Form of Music Consumption
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
An improvement to image segment based on human visual system for object-based coding
Fundamenta Informaticae
An incentive mechanism for message relaying in unstructured peer-to-peer systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Exploring the value of purchasing online game items
Computers in Human Behavior
Same Coin, Different Sides: Differential Impact of Social Learning on Two Facets of Music Piracy
Journal of Management Information Systems
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Downloading unauthorized music file, being framed as a problem of crime, is deemed unethical, but the peer-to-peer systems have boosted its popularity and have become the killer application for the music industry. Two factors, cost savings from CD purchase and the low moral reasoning ability of Internet users, have been frequently attributed as rationales for this behavior. Music download, however, can also be interpreted as a value maximizing behavior that chooses between the values from consuming illicit and legitimate music, wherein the consumption value is partly dependent on one's degree of fashion involvement since music is fashionable. This paper presents a conceptual model of music download by looking at and integrating these seldom noticed perspectives with traditional explanations. An analysis of 834 samples drew from a survey of P2P users in Taiwan reveals that: people are maximizing value while downloading music; and that fashion involvement influences the perception of consumption value from music download. This study also found that moral reasoning moderate the relationships among fashion involvement, consumption value, and behavioral intention to download music.