Information systems and the Internet have facilitated the creation ofused-product markets that feature a dramatically wider selection, lowersearch costs, and lower prices than their brick-and-mortar counterpartsdo. The increased viability of these used-product markets has causedconcern among...

With the rise of Napster, BitTorrent, and other tools facilitating Internet piracy, rights holders have understandably become very concerned with the development of strategies to mitigate the impact of piracy on sales. These tools fall into three general categories: litigation, countermeasures,...

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