Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is a Swiss academic.[1] He is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. A member of the faculty since 2003, Professor Oberholzer-Gee received his master's degree, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich.[2]

File sharing

Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf wrote The effect of file sharing on record sales: An empirical analysis, which was published in 2007; and in 2008 was cited during the Pirate Bay trial.

Their analysis indicated that file-sharing of music had negligible impact on CD sales, though this has been disputed by the recording industry[3] and other [4] researchers.[5][6] However these critiques were never peer reviewed (unlike the original paper) and the authors have received significant funding from the record industry.

gollark: But consider: attackers may be able to measure minor differences in the timing of operations in your service.
gollark: > Also, just using == to compare ~~a password and hash~~ secret values of some kind is actually somewhat unsafe because timing channel attacks.To continue this, basically, `==`/string equality/whatever will generally exit early if it detects a character which doesn't match.
gollark: sorry, no, I got confused with JS.
gollark: Lua does.
gollark: Also, just using `==` to compare ~~a password and hash~~ secret values of some kind is actually somewhat unsafe because timing channel attacks.

References
  1. Broughton, Philip Delves (2010). What They Teach You At Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism. London, U.K.: Viking. pp. 147–148. ISBN 9780141046488. OCLC 559782256.
  2. Felix Oberholzer-Gee - Harvard Business School
  3. CNET retrieved 24/3/2009
  4. http://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=2075
  5. https://ssrn.com/abstract=1014399
  6. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/oekonomie/nachrichten/steven-levitt-blocks-an-undesired-statement-no-comment-please/2976444.html

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