-ante level of publicness – determined by the anti-piracy strategies of the firms – and the ex-post level of publicness – which is … models developed in the article detail the required conditions for anti-piracy strategies to be successful and show the …

This paper empirically investigates determinants of digital piracy in Germany for several types of digitized products … process from peer-to-peer online networks to offline forms of file swapping. Our findings are confirmed by recent piracy …

option used by companies to tackle piracy. The aim of this article is to discuss the consequences of DRM for consumers, firms …

software (OSS) community and a piracy channel, as well as on welfare. We develop a model in which the PS firm competes by price … towards the software copy (PPS). We show that the existence of the piracy channel incumbent enables the PS firm to reach out … higher profit than when piracy is prevented. A key mechanism at stake is that the PS monopolist can define its compatibility …

Anecdotal evidence and recent empirical work suggest that music piracy has differential effects on artists depending on … show that piracy is beneficial to the artist when alternative revenues are important. In our model, however, this does not … carry over to the less popular artist, who is often harmed by piracy even when alternative revenues are important. We …