Software has become an integral part of our life when everything in our life is connected with the digital world. Being … a valuable technology in the internet age, software has also contributed for the development of economy as well. It has … exporter of software in the world. But across the world, all the countries with huge software developing markets are facing a …

analyzes aspects of the criminal investigation of software piracy and online piracy. The article analyzes both some of the … criminal investigation acts commonly used in software piracy such as technical-scientific findings and forensic expertise of … copyrighted software or related rights, and some methodological issues related to forensic investigation of software piracy and …

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 …

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 …

The economic analyses of software piracy typically rely on the simplifying assumption that the product is offered by a … single producer. We argue that a realistic description of the software market and associated economic aspects of software … piracy might be also captured by studying competition between software developers. Using an illegal version of software …

economy on the piracy of computer software. Results support the main hypothesis that a larger shadow economy leads to higher … rates of software piracy. This claim is supported by various robustness checks. A 10% increase in the shadow sector … increases software piracy about 1.4%. In other findings, greater economic prosperity and greater internet diffusion check piracy …

global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental … characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low …

With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions in policy decision … instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on software piracy. The following findings are established …. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws (treaties) in the fight against software piracy. (2) Main …