Jiang, Bao-Jun; Chen, Pei-Yu; Mukhopadhyay, Tridas - 2007
Piracy has been a major problem for perpetually licensed software. Usage-based licensing architecture such as pay …-per-use or software-as-a-service can offer technology-based protection against piracy. We provide an analytical framework to … examine the economic implications of pay-per-use versus perpetual licensing in a market with potential piracy, network effect …