How to discourage online music piracy

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 723-736

  Chiu, Hung Chang ^a   Lin, Yuh May ^b   Lee, Monle ^c   Nieh, Min En ^b,e   Chen, Hsiang Chun ^d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e National Chung Hsing University ^*

Author keywords

Enterprise; File sharing; Online music; Piracy; Retention strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849109640     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2008.021192     Document Type: Article

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