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To root or not to root? : the economics of jailbreak

Chao, Hong; Ho, Chun-yu; Tin Cheuk Leung; Ng, Travis - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 3, pp. 481-497

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Music Piracy: Bad for Record Sales but Good for the iPod?

Leung, Tin Cheuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Music piracy is a double-edged sword for the music industry. On the one hand, it hurts record sales. On the other hand, it increases sales of its complements. To quantify the effect of music piracy, I construct a unique survey data set and use a Bayesian method to estimate the demand for music...

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Data Integrity Preservation and Identity Theft Prevention : Operational and Strategic Imperatives to Enhance Shareholder and Consumer Value

Govern, Kevin H. - 2012

Given the current risk environment, businesses are obligated to do their utmost to protect systems and ensure consumer confidentiality. Unfortunately, even the prudent and vigilant business entities may still be susceptible to data theft or other outside system intrusion. In this respect, sound...

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To Root or Not to Root? The Economics of Jailbreak

Chao, Hong; Ho, Chun-Yu; Leung, Tin Cheuk; Ng, Travis - 2013

rather than the monetary cost of jailbreaking smartphones determines its prevalence. Users mainly jailbreak smartphones to …We construct a structural model that allows us to jointly estimate the demand for smartphones and paid apps using a … the aggregate market share of smartphones in the cell phone market. Apple, however, would sell even more iPhones at the …

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Identity Theft : Risks and Challenges to Business of Data Compromise

Winn, John; Govern, Kevin H. - 2014

The loss of private customer data such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, birth-dates, and other confidential information to unauthorized third parties presents a daunting set of challenges and legal obligations to affected businesses. Identity theft has been America's “fastest...

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Impediments to the Used Consumer Software Business

Marr, Jeremy T. - 2014

Computer software is a huge, worldwide industry, one in which the United States has become the dominant force. The maturation of the software industry has led to dramatic productivity gains, permitting businesses and individuals to accomplish more work with less effort. The industry's growth has...

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Computer Mediated Transactions

Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10

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How Serious is Piracy in the Videogame Industry?

Fukugawa, Nobuya - 2011

Downloading pirated videogames enables users of portable game machines to play downloaded videogames on a platform without purchasing the original versions. Based on a questionnaire survey, this study is the first to examine how familiar users of portable videogame machines are with downloading...

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The Truth in Domain Names Act of 2003 and a Preventative Measure to Combat Typosquatting

Clark, Christopher G. - 2006

This Note analyzes the Truth in Truth in Domain Names Act of 2003, the first piece of legislation to criminalize the registration of a misleading Internet domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity, and the first case successfully prosecuted under the Act, United...

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In Tort Pursuit of Mass Media : Big Tobacco, Big Banks, and Their Big Secrets

Peltz-Steele, Richard J. - 2014

This article examines potential civil liability under the multistate norms of tort and closely related areas in the common law of the United States for the mass media re-publisher of leaked corporate secrets. The examination employs two fact patterns derived from real cases: one, contemporary,...

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