Understanding the relationship between copyright policy and consumer behavior is an increasingly important topic for participants in digital media markets. In this paper we seek to study how consumer behavior changes when Internet Service Providers are required to block access to major piracy websites. We do this in the context of two court-ordered events affecting consumers in the UK: The bloc...

Bugs are the inevitable part of a software system. Nowadays, large software development projects even release beta versions of their products to gather bug reports from users. The collected bug reports are then worked upon by various developers in order to resolve the defects and make the final software product more reliable. The high frequency of incoming bugs makes the bug handling a difficul...

Benchmarking provides an effective way to evaluate different tools. Unfortunately, so far there is no good benchmark suite to systematically evaluate software bug detection tools. As a result, it is difficult to quantitatively compare the strengths and limitations of existing or newly proposed bug detection tools. In this paper, we share our experience of building a bug benchmark suite called B...

Bug fix is an important and challenging task in software development and maintenance. Bug fix is also a dangerous change, because it might induce new bugs. It is difficult to decide whether a bug fix is safe in practice. In this paper, we conducted an empirical study on bug inducing analysis to discover the types and features of fault prone bug fixes. We use a classical algorithm to track the l...

In automatic software bug localization, source code analysis is usually used to localize the buggy code without manual intervention. However, due to considering irrelevant source code, localization accuracy may get biased. In this paper, a Method level Bug localization using Minimized search space (MBuM) is proposed for improving the accuracy, which considers only the liable source code for gen...

There is a gap between the information available at the time of a software failure and the information actually shipped to developers in the corresponding bug report. As a result, identifying the cause of the bug based on this bug report is often difficult. To close this gap, we propose bug fingerprints—an augmentation of classic automated bug reports with runtime information about how the repo...

Most of the software companies need to deal with vast number of software bugs day to day. This paper can be viewed as an application of instance selection and feature selection in bug repositories. The aim is to address the problem of data reduction for bug triage, and to reduce the scale and improve the quality of bug data. This can be achieved by combining instance selection with feature sele...

The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study. Access to the published version may require subscription. Oekonux is a nonprofit organization devoted to the theoretical and practical advancement of peer production, that later changed name to The Journal of Peer Production (JoPP). Summary If it is possible to speak of a coherent file­sharing movement in Sweden, what a...

The enormous popularity of the Internet and the tremendous advances in communication technology have opened a new distribution channel for the software firms. However, at the same time, the Internet also makes the distribution of pirate software much easier. In order to analyze software firms’ protection strategies for online software distribution, a game theory base model is presented in the p...