Would You Like Popcorn with That Download? A Uses and Gratifications Study Into the Motivations of Legal and Illegal Film Consumption

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1. Plunkett, J. W. Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2013.

2. Ibid.

3. See, for example, McQuail, McQuail's Mass Communication Theory; Straubhaar, LaRose, and Davenport, Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture and Technology.

4. Straubhaar et al., Media Now, 526.

5. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment.

6. Pardo, “Digital Hollywood: How Internet and Social Media are Changing the Movie Business” in “Handbook of Social Media Management—Value Chain and Business Models in Changing Media Markets.

7. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, 2013–14.

8. K.E.Kristian Möller & Pirjo Karppinen. “Role of motives and attributes in consumer motion picture choice.” Journal of Economic Psychology 4, no. 3 (1983)

9. Screen Australia, What to Watch? Audience Motivation in a Multi-Screen World.

10. Maxfield, Media at the Movies: Analyzing the Movie-Viewing Audience.

11. Nelmes, Introduction to Film Studies.

12. Rodowick, The virtual life of film.

13. Tesser, Millar, and Wu, On the Perceived Functions of Movies.

14. Gray, “At one with the Cult of the DVD,” in Variety Magazine, 52.

15. Ulin, The Business of Media Distribution: Monetizing Film, TV and Video Content in an Online World.

16. Donoghue. “Death of the DVD Market and the Rise of Digital Piracy: Industrial Shifts in the Spanish Film Market Since the 2000s,” in Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

17. Straubhaar et al., Media Now.

18. Jewkes and Majid. Handbook of Internet Crime, 256.

19. Pardo, Digital Hollywood.

20. Thussu. International Communication: Continuity and Change.

21. See, for example, Cenite, Wanzheng Wang, Peiwen, and Shimin Chan, “More Than Just Free Content Motivations of Peer-to-Peer File Sharers, ” in Journal of Communication Inquiry; Kinnally, Lacayo, McClung, and Sapolsky,“Getting Up on the Download: College Students' Motivations for Acquiring Music Via the Web,” in New Media & Society; Sandulli, “CD music purchase behaviour of P2P users,” in Technovation; Wang, and McClung, “Toward a Detailed Understanding of illegal Digital Downloading Intentions: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Approach,” in New Media & Society; Wingrove, Korpas, and Weisz, “Why Were Millions of people Not Obeying the Law? Motivational Influences on Non-Compliance With the Law in the Case of Music Piracy,” in Psychology, Crime & Law; Borja, Dieringer, and Daw, “The Effect of Music Streaming Services on Music Piracy Among College Students,” in Computers in Human Behavior.

22. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment.

23. Suddath, Can BitTorrent be Good for Hollywood? in Bloomberg Businessweek, p. 80.

24. ABS, Attendance at Selected Cultural; ABS, Cinema Attendance—Perspective on Culture, March 2011.

25. Ulin, Business of Media Distribution.

26. Global Web Index, Global-Internet Usage Motivations—All Motivations—Very Important.

27. Danaher and Waldfogel. Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales.

28. Jacobs, Heuvelman, Tan, and Peters, “Digital movie piracy: A perspective on downloading behavior through social cognitive theory,” in Computers in Human Behavior.

29. Möller and Karppinen, “Role of motives and attributes in consumer motion picture choice,” in Journal of Economic Psychology.

30. Motion Pictures Distributors Association of Australia, Media Release.

31. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment.

32. Kinnally et al., Getting Up; Sheehan, James, and Yang, “Motivations for Gratifications of Digital Music Piracy Among College Students,” in Atlantic Journal of Communication.

33. Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch, “Uses and gratifications research,” in Public Opinion Quarterly.

34. Flick, An Introduction to Qualitative Research.

35. Burton, “The Options Generation: A Discussion of Young Australians' Media Use,” in Australian Screen Education; Straubhaar et al., Media Now.

36. Pardo, Digital Hollywood.

37. Katz, Haas, and Gurevitch, “20 Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-Run Effects on Values, Social Connectedness, and Cultural Practices?” Journal of Communication.

38. Pardo, Digital Hollywood.

39. Chia and Synnott. An Introduction to Public Relations: From Theory to Practice.

40. Decherney. Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet.

41. Ibid., 2.

42. Cronan and Al-Rafee. Factors That Influence the Intention to Pirate Software and Media. Journal of Business Ethics; Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, and Laura L. Namy. Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding.

43. Pardo, Digital Hollywood.

44. Ibid.