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

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 …

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 …

The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which … software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel … following main findings are established. First, from the FE regressions, software piracy consistently improves the IHDI and its …

. The existing literature relating to software piracy research is typified by the use qualitative methods to analyse the … impact of IPRs on software piracy. Most concern themselves with a handful of important macroeconomic factors in an effort to … has given greater attention to the role of key regulatory variables on software piracy using econometric methods. In this …

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 …

The music and software industry are employing copy-protection devicesin CDs and digital downloads to strengthen their …. Copyprotection is controversial, because it deprives consumers from makinghome copies of music and software, and hence overrules …