The Metric is the Message: How Much of the Decline in Sound Recording Sales is Due to File-Sharing?
The Metric is the Message: How Much of the Decline in Sound Recording Sales is Due to File-Sharing?
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衡量标准就是信息：录音销量的下降有多少是由于文件共享造成的？
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.1932518
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2011
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S. Liebowitz
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S. Liebowitz
文件共享文献主要集中在文件共享是否降低了唱片销量，对销量下降的幅度关注较少。尽管仍有一些争议，但大多数研究已经得出结论，文件共享降低了唱片的销量。没有注意到的是，大多数估计表明，文件共享导致了过去十年来唱片销量的巨大下降。到目前为止，这一隐藏的结果是由于缺乏一个一致的衡量标准，以便在不同研究之间进行轻松的可比性。本文的任务是提供这样一个指标，将文献中报告的结果转换为该指标，然后总结本练习的结果。
The file-sharing literature has focused mainly on whether file-sharing has decreased record sales, with less attention paid to the size of any decline. Although there is still some contention, most studies have concluded that file-sharing has decreased record sales. What has not been noted is that most estimates indicate that the file-sharing has caused the entire enormous decline in record sales that has occurred over the last decade. This heretofore hidden result is due to the lack of a consistent metric that would allow easy comparability across studies. The task of this paper is to provide such a metric, translate the results reported in the literature into that metric, and then summarizes the results from this exercise.