Getting up on the download: College students' motivations for acquiring music via the web

New Media and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 893-913

  Kinnally, William ^a   Lacayo, Anamarcia ^b   McClung, Steven ^c   Sapolsky, Barry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Downloading; Internet; Mp3 filesharing; Music and the world wide web; Music copyright violation; Music downloading; Napster; Peer to peer filesharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849100001     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444808096250     Document Type: Article

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