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 …

The exclusive rights enjoyed by a copyright owner to reproduce his protected work in any material form, including any … provider (ISP). Any transmission of temporary copies of material protected by copyright law by their subscribers or third … exclusive rights granted to a copyright owner may, thus, place an ISP in a difficult position that may seriously affect the …

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 …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of … piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …