Most digital content distributed in information-goods platforms encounter the threat of online piracy. Strategic pricing, technology-based platform protection, and deterrent enforcement such as legal and moral measures are viewed as antidotes to piracy. We examine the effects of deterrent...

Providers of free-to-play games often gain revenue by monetizing players' playtime, e.g., through ingame advertising, and by selling premium module of the game. One emerging strategy to sell the premium module, known as the virtual selling strategy, is to set the module price based on an amount...