A study of neutralisation theory's application to global consumer ethics: P2P file-trading of musical intellectual property on the internet

International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-88

  Cohn, Deborah Y ^a   Vaccaro, Valerie L ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer ethics; Digital music; File sharing; Intellectual property; MP3; Napster; Neutralisation techniques; Peer to peer (P2P); Weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645776042     PISSN: 14775212     EISSN: 17418100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIMA.2006.008975     Document Type: Article

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