Digital Piracy: A Global, Multidisciplinary Account [Hardcover]

Non-Commercial digital piracy has seen an unprecedented rise in the wake of the digital revolution; with wide-scale downloading and sharing of copyrighted media online, often committed by otherwise law-abiding citizens. Bringing together perspectives from criminology, psychology, business, and adopting a morally neutral stance, this book offers a holistic overview of this growing phenomenon. It considers its cultural, commercial, and legal aspects, and brings together international research on a range of topics, such as copyright infringement, intellectual property, music publishing, movie piracy, and changes in consumer behaviour. This book offers a new perspective to the growing literature on cybercrime and digital security.

This multi-disciplinary book is the first to bring together international research on digital piracy and will be key reading for researchers in the fields of criminology, psychology, law and business.

Introduction 1. Digital Piracy: A Global, Multidisciplinary Account: Contextualising Digital Piracy, Thomas J. Holt and Steven Caldwell Brown Section I: Evolving Media Consumption Practices 2. The Times They Are a-Changin: Digital Music Value in Transition from Piracy to Streaming, Hyojung Sun 3. Digital Piracy, New Media and Consumer Choice, Holly Tessler and Kenny Forbes 4. Anti-piracy Policies, Online Film Circulation and On-demand Culture: The Italian Context Between Formality and Informality, Valentina Re Section II: Approaches to Understanding Digital Piracy 5. The Social and Applied Psychology of Engagement in Music Piracy, Amanda Krause and Steven Caldwell Brown 6. An Examination of Digital Piracy Behavior through the Lens of Cultural and Non-Cultural Variables, MoniklC7