We analyze strategies that movie distributors have used to cope with piracy, copying and sharing of movies in the United States in four categories: "hard goods" commercial piracy, consumer theft of pay TV signals, consumer copying and sharing of videos and pay TV, and mostly in prospect -...

There appear to be wide variations in levels of enforcement against piracy and illegal copying in the AV entertainment industries. In particular, copyright holders such as the Motion Picture Association of America appear to be very aggressive, while firms at the retail level, especially cable...

We review strategies that movie distributors have used to cope with piracy, copying and sharing of movies in the United States in four categories: ― "hard goods" commercial piracy, consumer theft of pay TV signals, consumer copying and sharing of videos and pay TV, and mostly in prospect ―...

We review strategies that movie distributors have used to cope with piracy, copying and sharing of movies in the United States in four categories: ― "hard goods" commercial piracy, consumer theft of pay TV signals, consumer copying and sharing of videos and pay TV, and mostly in...