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MANSCI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The Case of Phantom Piracy
This paper analytically explores the effect of software bundling on software piracy. We focus on piracy at individual user level where several individuals illegitimately share a s...
Ram D. Gopal, Alok Gupta
IEPOL
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A model of piracy
This paper develops a simple model of software piracy to analyze the short-run effects of piracy on software usage and the long-run effects on development incentives. We consider ...
Sang Hoo Bae, Jay Pil Choi
CCS
2001
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging
Most people consider frequent software updates a nuisance. However, we show how this common phenomenon can be turned into a feature that protects against software piracy. We defin...
Markus Jakobsson, Michael K. Reiter
HICSS
2010
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics
Despite tremendous debate and policy interest in software piracy, the accuracy of piracy statistics compiled by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has been accepted at face valu...
Ivan P. L. Png