. In theory, piracy could crowd out legitimate sales by building file sharing capacity, but could also increase sales …

screening technologies) which are also seen as intermediaries. The enforcement effort is there fore endogenously determined. It … (artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright … infringements (piracy). It is well known from static welfare analysis that to some extent piracy reduces the deadweight loss by …

Online copyright enforcement, in the form of either direct action against the supply-side (via website shutdowns) or … the demand-side (via individual lawsuits against users), has not been very effective in reducing piracy. Regulators have … the advertising services associated with a large number of piracy websites and corresponding set of legitimate "placebo …

reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third …-party advertising and tracking services associated with a large number of piracy websites and a corresponding set of legitimate "placebo … initiative and reduce their connections with piracy websites. We do not find reductions for other non-advertising services that …

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 …