Baywatch: Two approaches to measure the effects of blocking access to The Pirate Bay
Poort,Joost Leenheer,Jorna van der Ham,Jeroen Dumitru,Cosmin
Poort,Joost
Leenheer,Jorna
van der Ham,Jeroen
Dumitru,Cosmin
Abstract
In the fight against unauthorised sharing of copyright protected material, Dutch Internet Service Providers have been summoned by courts to block their subscribers' access to The Pirate Bay and related sites. This paper studies the effectiveness of this approach towards online copyright enforcement, using both a consumer survey and a newly developed non-infringing technology for BitTorrent monitoring. While a small group of respondents download less from illegal sources or claim to have stopped doing so, no impact is found on the percentage of the Dutch population downloading from illegal sources. Slight changes are found on the distribution of Dutch peers, but these seem related to the awareness raised by blocking rather than the blocking itself. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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2014-05
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Unauthorised file sharing, Piracy, p2p, BitTorrent monitoring, Blocking access, The Pirate Bay, Online copyright enforcement, IMPACT, SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Citation
Poort, J, Leenheer, J, van der Ham, J & Dumitru, C 2014, 'Baywatch : Two approaches to measure the effects of blocking access to The Pirate Bay', Telecommunications Policy, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2013.12.008
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