What role can music fans play in combating piracy and supporting their favorite artists?

Aug 11, 2014 ... VKontakte case puts Russian music piracy into spotlight ... Three major record labels - Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music ... Jun 24, 2015 ... I'd pirated before, of course. As a child in the late '80s I'd recorded songs from the radio; in the early '90s I'd been passed a bootlegged ... Abstract. Piracy is the greatest threat facing the music industry worldwide today. This study developed and empirically tested a model examining the antecedents ... Mar 10, 2006 ... Robert Thomas of Wisconsin and Jared Bowser of Florida are accused of posting selections from the Ryan Adams' album “Jacksonville City Nights” ... potential for music piracy and bootlegging. Already, the music industry estimates that it loses over five million dollars each year to music piracy7 because of ... Mar 3, 2015 ... Now, these Brazilian citizens aspire to smartphones and tablets in order to access digital content and services. However, many Brazilians, ... May 6, 2017 ... Piracy has a history as long as sound recording – even as long as written music itself. Jazzheads swapped copies of shellac discs in the 1930s. May 30, 2019 ... Unfortunately a segment of music fans continue to acquire music in unsanctioned forms. Legacy forms of piracy through P2P file sharing ... It is stronger shortly after the introduction of the law and diminishes in later periods for all songs except the top sellers or superstars. After the ... While the U.S. Courts, Patent and Copyrights offices work in defining what consist of elements of crime that could be legislated against music piracy, ...