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T1 Investigating the reaction of BitTorrent content publishers to antipiracy actions
A1 Farahbakhsh, Reza
A1 Cuevas Rumín, Ángel
A1 Cuevas Rumín, Rubén
A1 Rejaie, Reza
A1 Kryczka, Michal
A1 González Sánchez, Roberto
A1 Crespi, Noel
AB During recent years, a few countries have put in place online antipiracy laws and there has been some major enforcement actions against violators. This raises the question that to what extent antipiracy actions have been effective in deterring online piracy? This is a challenging issue to explore because of the difficulty to capture user behavior, and to identify the subtle effect of various underlying (and potentially opposing) causes. In this paper, we tackle this question by examining the impact of two major antipiracy actions, the closure of Megaupload and the implementation of the French antipiracy law, on publishers in the largest BitTorrent portal who are major providers of copyrighted content online. We capture snapshots of BitTorrent publishers at proper times relative to the targeted antipiracy event and use the trends in the number and the level of activity of these publishers to assess their reaction to these events. Our investigation illustrates the importance of examining the impact of antipiracy events on different groups of publishers and provides valuable insights on the effect of selected major antipiracy actions on publishers' behavior.
PB IEEE - The Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers
SN 978-1-4799-0521-8
YR 2013
FD 2013-12-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/24653
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/24653
LA eng
NO This work has been partially supported by the European Union through the FP7 eCOUSIN (318398) and TREND (257740) Projects and the ITEA2 TWIRL Project (Call 5-10029), the Spanish Government under the CRAMNET project (TEC2012-38362-C03-01) and  eeCONTENT Project (TEC2011- 29688-C02-02), the Regional Government of Madrid through the MEDIANET project (S-2009/TIC-1468),  and the National Science Foundation under Grant IIS-0917381.
NO European Community's Seventh Framework Program
DS e-Archivo
RD 18 may. 2024