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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand more of online anonymity in the global file sharing community in the context of social norms and copyright law. The study describes the respondents in terms of use of VPN or similar service related to age, gender, geographical location, as...
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Abstract Purpose This study aims to examine how piracy via peer-to-peer (P2P) network affects sales of original version …, different respondents employ different channels to learn about piracy. Third, 95% of the respondents who knew how to pirate did … not download any pirated video game. Once involved in piracy, jobless respondents with less enthusiasm for video games who …
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outline the implications of these characteristics on efforts to counteract illegal piracy and on potential uses of P2P …
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Trends in online piracy have reached record levels and threaten traditional industry supply chains. Music, motion … pictures, print media, and software are some of the most vulnerable content pirated online. Recent increases in piracy can be … ecosystems, as well as opened the door to greater acts of piracy. Under these new ecosystems, digital rights management (DRM) has …
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Location Based Services (LBS) expose user data to malicious attacks. Approaches, evolved, so far, for preserving privacy and security, suffer from one or more anomalies, and hence the problem of securing LBS data is far from being resolved. In particular, accuracy of results vs. privacy degree,...
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The exponential dissemination of proximity computing devices (smartphones, tablets, nanocomputers, etc.) raises important questions on how to transmit, store and analyze data in networks integrating those devices. New approaches like edge computing aim at delegating part of the work to devices...
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) infrastructure is an emerging paradigm that offers new opportunities for the development of large-scale distributed systems. This architecture combined with the new techniques introduced by semantic web as ontologies encouraged the emergence of new multi-source data...
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