characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …

piracy on the cultural industry. The diversity of data collected and methodologies used by empirical studies make it … piracy which may be due, for example, to the use of Internet access as a proxy for piracy. On the other hand, the problem of … an underestimation of the impact of piracy. As a result, the major finding of empirical works about piracy could be the …

characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …