This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate countries into fundamental characteristics of business software … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on …-2010 and the Generalised Method of Moments. The main finding is that, compared to internet penetration, PC usage is more … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important …

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs …) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology … metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC users) and six IPRs mechanisms (constitution, IPR law, main IP laws, WIPO …

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding … ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed … or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of the focus group of software users on one hand and the official …