the software piracy rate. …

the software piracy rate. …

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 …

from all over Pakistan on the subject. Software infringement and internet piracy are now worldwide phenomenon and no … explosion through use of internet. Software industry is one of the emerging industries of 21st century which is becoming a major …

Despite tremendous debate and policy interest in software piracy, statistics compiled by the Business Software Alliance … apparently became more sensitive to changes in income. Third, piracy rates depended on projections of software usage based on per …

This study examines the complex dynamics of the international software piracy problem by focusing on the size of … revenue losses made from pirated software. Although a considerable number of cross-national studies have focused on software … protection of computer software is prevalent mostly in less developed countries with low-income, ineffective legal systems and …

The open-source software operating system Linux is a free-of-charge substitute to proprietary systems like Microsoft … Windows. By using a cross-country data set, this paper finds evidence that increased piracy of proprietary software has a … Linux operating system on their desktop computers. Thus, in the absence of software piracy, Linux would be a more widely …