BSA Piracy Reduction Impact Study
Economic Benefits of a Ten-Point Reduction in Software Piracy (from 2008-2011)
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BSA – IDC Study
May 2009 Sixth Annual BSA-IDC Global Software
08 Piracy Study
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Cremer, H., & Pierre, P. (2009). Piracy prevention and the pricing of information goods. Information Economics and Policy, 21, 34-42.
This paper studies the effects of piracy on prices and welfare and determines the optimal enforcement policy. A monopolist sells an information good at a non-linear price in two versions designed for two types of consumers [...]
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertwachara, K., & Marsden, J. R. (2006). Whatever happened to Payola? An empirical analysis of online music sharing. Decision Support Systems, 42, 104-120.
The popularity of online music-sharing networks has attracted interest from the music industry, artists, consumer advocacy groups, the popular press, and government legislative and regulatory entities. P2P networks [...]
Kiema, I.(2008). Commercial piracy and intellectual property policy. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 68, 304-318.
I discuss the competition between a copyright owner and several commercial pirates who sell copies of the same information good to consumers. I view the increased risk of a punishment that offering a pirate copy to a consumer causes as [...]