Abstract
Piracy today is one of the biggest threats to the global creative industry. Though evidence indicates that film and music industries suffer substantial losses from piracy, there are also other views that argue that piracy, especially peer-to-peer file sharing, provides consumers better access to new music and movies and promotes unknown artists and hereby positively influences the overall business of the industry. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the continuing debate among academics around the topic of film and music piracy and its impact on the business by using bibliometric and content analysis. We intend to explore these nuances further and aim to look at the key variables that influence film and music piracy literature. We also attempt to seek answers around the intellectual aspects of the major research clusters of film and music piracy literature and provide future research directions.