E/L/39. Dissertation. Impact of Online Piracy on the Film Industry

The dissertation addresses the issue of the online film piracy in the UK examining the reasons behind the illegal downloading of films via the Internet and its threats to the country's film industry. The review of literature touches on the copyright law in the e-commerce environment, file sharing software, approaches to neutralizing film piracy, etc. The methods of research are based on positivist and phenomenological approaches to the analysis of primary data (obtained via questionnaires and structured interviews) and secondary data. Conclusions are made about the impact of online piracy; recommendations are suggested to the management of the UK film industry.