文化贸易保护主义中英文外文文献翻译.doc

本科毕业设计（论文） 中英文对照翻译 (此文档为word格式,下载后您可任意修改编辑!) 标题：Peer-to-peer file sharing and cultural trade protectionism 作者：Andres Hervas-Drane, Eli Noam 期刊：Information Economics and Policy，1-13页 年份：2017 字数：译文5563字 原文 Peer-to-peer file sharing and cultural trade protectionism Andres Hervas-Drane, Eli Noam Abstract We examine the Internet’s impact on the cross-border distribution of cultural goods and assess its implications for cultural policy and cultural diversity. We present a stylized model of a two-country economy where governments are endowed with political preferences over the consumption of domestic content and enact import barriers and subsidies to protect it. We introduce peer-to-peer file sharing as a distinct distribution channel enabled by the Internet that provides access to all media products at a low cost. We report two main findings. First, the Internet renders legacy cultural policy inefficient, and the elimination of import barriers and the reduction of subsidized production can be desirable even when governments exhibit paternalistic preferences favoring the consumption of domestic content. And second, even though the Internet increases cultural diversity within countries, it can also reduce diversity across them. Keywords: Media industry, Digital distribution, Cultural policy, Cultural diversity Introduction Online sharing of media content over file sharing networks has become pervasive during the last decade. A prime example of the cross-border impact of online sharing is American television series Game of Thrones. The series premiered in the US in 2011 and was broadcast in other countries with delays ranging from one day in the UK to over a year in Japan, and soon attracted an international following. With foreign audiences eager to watch every new episode, the number of online sharing downloads in subsequent years often surpassed the prime time television audience in the US.1 In 2015, the Guinness World Records named the show the most pirated t