One of the major issues raised by Digital Rights Management systems concerns the protection of the user’s privacy and anonymous consumption of content. However, most existing li...
We have shown in a previous study that selling content-transmutation rights to consumers increases total surplus of both producers and consumers of digital products. Our results w...
As the Internet becomes increasingly used for sensitive transactions, the need to protect user privacy becomes more and more important. One fundamental aspect of user privacy is t...
: Digital piracy is threatening the global multimedia content industry and blindly applied coercive Digital Right Management (DRM) policies do nothing but legitimizing this piracy....
Although Customer-to-Customer (C2C) business model has been around for years, second-hand markets of digital contents over the Internet are unpopular. A key factor to the success ...