Study Concludes That Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Movie Sales
In a study published earlier this month, professors Brett Danaher (of Wellesley College’s Department of Economics) and Michael D. Smith (from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management) conclude that the January 2012 shutdown of Megaupload positively affected the digital sales of movies for the two major film studios…