[Air-l] Illicit Consumption

Karim R. Lakhani lakhani at MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 18 14:19:33 PDT 2003


check this out
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/fileshare.html

federico wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am in the beginning stages of conducting a study examining the illicit
> consumption of information goods on peer-to-peer networks (i.e. downloading
> pirated media). Specifically, I'm looking to develop a model for why and
> what people download from P2P networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus.
> 
> Does anyone know of a Web site or other source that tracks the usage of such
> networks, and perhaps even the percentages of what categories of things are
> being downloaded?
> 
> I have already amassed quite a large literature looking at illicit
> consumption in other contexts (there has n't been that much done on these
> P2P networks on the consumers side, at least that I coudl find). If anyone
> is interested in that, I'd be more than happy to send it to you
> individually.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Federico de Gregorio
> Doctoral Candidate
> Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
> University of Georgia
> Athens, GA 30605-3018
> 
> 
> 
> 
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