Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement
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Resumo: | We evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino.to, a major platform for unlicensed video streaming in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a difference-in-differences setting, we compare the web behavior of 20,000 consumers in Germany and three control countries. We find that this intervention was not very effective in reducing unlicensed consumption or encouraging licensed consumption, mainly because users quickly switch to alternative unlicensed sites. We highlight that the shutdown additionally had important unintended externalities. Individuals who never visited kino.to and who additionally clicked on news articles that covered the shutdown increased their visits to piracy websites substantially. We show that this effect largely comes from articles that explicitly mention alternative websites or suggest that users do not have to fear legal consequences from unlicensed streaming. Finally, we document that the unlicensed video streaming market is much more fragmented after the shutdown, potentially affecting future interventions, at least in the short run.We argue that our results can be helpful to understand why online piracy rates are still high, despite a plethora of enforcement efforts. |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcementAntipiracy policyClickstreamCopyrightMovie industryNatural experimentWe evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino.to, a major platform for unlicensed video streaming in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a difference-in-differences setting, we compare the web behavior of 20,000 consumers in Germany and three control countries. We find that this intervention was not very effective in reducing unlicensed consumption or encouraging licensed consumption, mainly because users quickly switch to alternative unlicensed sites. We highlight that the shutdown additionally had important unintended externalities. Individuals who never visited kino.to and who additionally clicked on news articles that covered the shutdown increased their visits to piracy websites substantially. We show that this effect largely comes from articles that explicitly mention alternative websites or suggest that users do not have to fear legal consequences from unlicensed streaming. Finally, we document that the unlicensed video streaming market is much more fragmented after the shutdown, potentially affecting future interventions, at least in the short run.We argue that our results can be helpful to understand why online piracy rates are still high, despite a plethora of enforcement efforts.Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaAguiar, LuisClaussen, JörgPeukert, Christian2021-04-15T14:47:47Z2018-09-012018-09-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32629eng1047-704710.1287/isre.2018.077885056311211info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-09-19T01:41:35Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/32629Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:26:21.418663Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement Aguiar, Luis Antipiracy policy Clickstream Copyright Movie industry Natural experiment |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcement |
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Aguiar, Luis |
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Aguiar, Luis Claussen, Jörg Peukert, Christian |
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Claussen, Jörg Peukert, Christian |
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Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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Aguiar, Luis Claussen, Jörg Peukert, Christian |
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Antipiracy policy Clickstream Copyright Movie industry Natural experiment |
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Antipiracy policy Clickstream Copyright Movie industry Natural experiment |
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We evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino.to, a major platform for unlicensed video streaming in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a difference-in-differences setting, we compare the web behavior of 20,000 consumers in Germany and three control countries. We find that this intervention was not very effective in reducing unlicensed consumption or encouraging licensed consumption, mainly because users quickly switch to alternative unlicensed sites. We highlight that the shutdown additionally had important unintended externalities. Individuals who never visited kino.to and who additionally clicked on news articles that covered the shutdown increased their visits to piracy websites substantially. We show that this effect largely comes from articles that explicitly mention alternative websites or suggest that users do not have to fear legal consequences from unlicensed streaming. Finally, we document that the unlicensed video streaming market is much more fragmented after the shutdown, potentially affecting future interventions, at least in the short run.We argue that our results can be helpful to understand why online piracy rates are still high, despite a plethora of enforcement efforts. |
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