Catch Me if You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement Luis Aguiar, Jörg Claussen, and Christian Peukert Journal article (Accepted manuscript*) Please cite this article as: Aguiar, L., Claussen, J., & Peukert, C. (2018). Catch Me if You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement. Information Systems Research, 29(3), 656–678. DOI: 10.1287/isre.2018.0778 DOI: 10.1287/isre.2018.0778 * This version of the article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the publisher’s final version AKA Version of Record. Uploaded to CBS Research Portal: February 2019 Catch Me if You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement∗ Luis Aguiar1 J¨orgClaussen2,3 Christian Peukert4 1European Commission - Joint Research Center - Digital Economy Unit,
[email protected] 2LMU Munich - Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization,
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[email protected], corresponding author. Accepted version, January 17, 2018 Abstract We evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino.to, a major platform for unlicensed video stream- ing in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a difference-in- differences setting, we compare the web behavior of 20,000 consumers in Germany and three control countries. We find that this intervention was not very effective in reducing unlicensed consumption or encouraging licensed consumption, mainly because users quickly switch to alter- native unlicensed sites.