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 …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on …-2010 and the Generalised Method of Moments. The main finding is that, compared to internet penetration, PC usage is more … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important …

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 …

This paper studies pricing strategies for a commercial software provider who faces competition from both a free …-of-charge open-source software substitute and illegal copies of its own product. When network externalities are present, the … commercial software provider may choose to set a price sufficiently low such that a critical mass of users is not attainable for …

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 … metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC users) and six IPRs mechanisms (constitution, IPR law, main IP laws, WIPO …

The software industry frequently maintains that software piracy is no more than theft and a cause of huge losses …. Courts and other policy makers easily adopt that straightforward argument. Surprisingly, however, many software publishers do … not employ any technological measures to protect their software from piracy and many popular software products are …

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 …

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 … metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC users) and six IPRs mechanisms (constitution, IPR law, main IP laws, WIPO …

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