Chen, Jieteng; Gao, Yuetao; Ke, T. Tony - 2022
Regulators across the globe have imposed penalties on consumers for digital piracy consumption. Contrary to … expectations, however, digital piracy consumption has continued to grow since the inception of these regulations. We develop a … piracy users evade a regulator's penalty. We find that as the regulator raises penalty against piracy users, piracy …