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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital ...
PEITZ, Martin, BELLEFLAMME, Paul
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Piracy as Strategy? A Reexamination of Product Piracy [PDF]
, 2004 (WP 08/04 Clave pdf) To explore the impact that piracy has on demand for legal versions of a product and firm performance, we use the literatures of information economics and strategic management to expand the analysis of piracy to markets other than ...
JULIO ORLANDO DE CASTRO
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, 2014 "Piracy" is a concept that seems everywhere in the contemporary world. From the big screen with the dashing Jack Sparrow, to the dangers off the coast of Somalia; from the claims by the Motion Picture Association of America that piracy funds terrorism ...
Fredriksson, Martin +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 The effects of (private, small‐scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly differentiated, demands are interdependent because the copying technology exhibits increasing returns to scale. We characterize the
Picard, Pierre +2 more
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Introduction: Piracy in World History
, 2021 Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history, as long as there has been traffic and commerce at sea. Presumably, the origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when people first took to the sea for ...
Buchan, Bruce, +5 more
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Does software piracy always represent consumer misbehaviour?
, 2011 This study aims to explore whether or not software piracy is perceived as consumer misbehaviour in Libya. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used; data were collected by interviewing 10 marketers and through a questionnaire surveying 219
Whysall, P +5 more
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Back to software "profitable piracy": the role of information diffusion [PDF]
Can software piracy be profitable for a software editor? We tackle this issue in a simple model where software is an experience good and where the potential users can choose to adopt or pirate software or to delay their adoption. In that context, we show
Alexandra Rufini +2 more
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Piracy in its various forms has posed a threat to trade and shipping for millennia. In the 1970s, a steady rise in the number of attacks ushered in the present phenomenon of modern piracy and not many parts of the world's seas are free from piracy in one
Pierre Cariou +2 more
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“Robin Hook”: The developmental effects of Somali piracy [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 Brunel UniversityNaval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income.
Shortland, Anja, Shortland, A
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Swiss Journal of Radiology and Nuclear MedicineIn discussing piracy herein, the reference is not to historical maritime raiders bestowed with titles by the British Empire, such as Sir Francis Drake, who appropriated gold from the Spaniards, themselves having previously stolen it from indigenous peoples ("Indians"). The act of pilfering from thieves is presently regarded with skepticism and presents
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