Date of Award
Spring 5-2013
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Mass Communication and Journalism
First Advisor
David R. Davies
Abstract
With advances in technology, music consumption among listeners has vastly changed throughout the years. These changes in technology have allowed piracy to thrive and prosper while physical sales vastly decreased. Previous studies have explored how music piracy effects music consumption. This study goes beyond the work that previous studies have explored by examining a new form of music consumption—cloud-streaming websites. This thesis examines how cloud-streaming services have affected music consumption and music piracy through an analysis of an online study distributed to music consumers. The results showed that cloud-streaming services do change the way that people consume music. Respondents demonstrated a decline in piracy after their use of cloud-streaming services as well as a slight decline in amount of music purchased. Furthermore, respondents believed that cloud-streaming services would reinforce consumer’s acceptance of music piracy, although their own actions indicated the opposite.
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Recommended Citation
Seale, Caitlin M., "Aaarrrggg I’m a Pirate: Cloud-Streaming Services and Their Effects on Music Consumption and Music Piracy" (2013). Honors Theses. 167.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/167