How Technology Will Change Higher Education with Michael Smith on Two Think Minimum
Scott Wallsten and Michael D. Smith
Two Think Minimum · Challenges of the Traditional University Model with Professor Michael Smith Scott Wallsten: Hi, and welcome back to Two Think Minimum, the podcast of The Technology Policy…
Podcasts
Video Streaming and Its Lessons for Higher Education: Michael Smith on TPI’s Two Think Minimum
Michael D. Smith and Scott Wallsten
Two Think Minimum · Mike Smith on Streaming Market and Technological Shifts in the Entertainment Industry Scott (00:00): Hi and welcome back to Two Think Minimum, the podcast of the…
Piracy and Malware: There’s No Free Lunch
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
For years, those of us who study the effects of piracy have focused on two main questions. First, does it hurt creators, by reducing demand for what they produce? Here…
How Piracy Can Hurt Consumers
Michael D. Smith, Brett Danaher and Rahul Telang
The public debate about Internet piracy is typically seen as pitting the interests of producers versus the interests of consumers. On one hand, the empirical evidence is clear: piracy hurts…
Responding to Piracy: What the evidence shows
Michael D. Smith
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang In two previous blog posts (here and here), we reviewed the available academic evidence on whether piracy harms media sales, and whether this…
Website Blocking Revisited
Michael D. Smith
By Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang Blocking access to sites that promote piracy is one of the more controversial enforcement proposals for dealing with online copyright infringement.…
Research Papers
Website Blocking Revisited: The Effect of the UK November 2014 Blocks on Consumer Behavior
Michael D. Smith, Brett Danaher and Rahul Telang
Whether and how copyrights should be enforced in the digital age has become an important policy question and an important question for empirical research. In a prior study, we found that…
Research Papers
The Dual Impact of Movie Piracy on Box-Office Revenue: Cannibalization and Promotion
Michael D. Smith, Liye Ma and Alan L. Montgomery
There are two main hypothesized effects from movie piracy: a cannibalization effect which reduces legitimate sales, and a promotional effect which increases word-of-mouth and stimulates sales. While these two effects…
Piracy and Buzz
Michael D. Smith
Liye Ma, Alan Montgomery, and Michael D. Smith Late last month, the online piracy group Hive-CM8 issued an apology of sorts for leaking Quentin Tarantino’s movie The Hateful Eight onto…
Piracy and the Supply of New Creative Works
Michael D. Smith
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang Last week we blogged about the peer-reviewed academic literature studying whether piracy harms sales, showing that articles in peer-reviewed journals overwhelmingly find that…
