This paper analytically explores the effect of software bundling on software piracy. We focus on piracy at individual user level where several individuals illegitimately share a s...
This paper develops a simple model of software piracy to analyze the short-run effects of piracy on software usage and the long-run effects on development incentives. We consider ...
Reduced sizes of music files due to compression technologies has allowed for piracy to become a rampant problem on the Internet even in the absence of significant bandwidth. Howev...
As semiconductor manufacturing requires greater capital investments, the use of contract foundries has grown dramatically, increasing exposure to mask theft and unauthorized exces...
We have shown in a previous study that selling content-transmutation rights to consumers increases total surplus of both producers and consumers of digital products. Our results w...