This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important … because it enables more targeted policy initiatives. We show that the sensitivity of software piracy to IPRs mechanisms is …

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 … regressions.The findings show that the relevance of IPR channels in the fight against software piracy is noticeably contingent on …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software …. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased …