P2P in the Networked Future of European Cinema.
The new peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies have impacted the film industry, which advocates sanctions against the downloading and sharing of products found on the Internet. But the economic effect of file sharing on the film industry remains difficult to determine. In this article, we ask whether file...
| Published in: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 6; pp. 795 - 826 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2012
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