Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2008Open access
Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang
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The creative industries have frequently expressed concern that they can't compete with freely available copies of their content. Competing with free is particularly concerning for movie stu-dios, whose content may be more prone to single-use consumption than other industries such as music. This issue has gained renewed importance recently with the advent of new digital video recording and distribution technologies, and the widespread availability of Internet piracy.
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