Software piracy continues to threaten the profitability of the software development industry. Software publishers have employed both preventive and deterrent controls and made small gains in protecting intellectual property rights. Although deterrent measures are believed to have a positive affect on profits, preventive controls are reported to have a negative affect as the cost of engagement o...

Reduced sizes of music files due to compression technologies has allowed for piracy to become a rampant problem on the Internet even in the absence of significant bandwidth. However given the large sizes of video files, movies are still largely pirated by duplicating DVDs, VCDs and other physical media. Conventionally DVD formats have differed across various regions in the world albeit for cont...

Machine learning (ML) models can be trade secrets due to their development cost. Hence, they need protection against malicious forms of reverse engineering (e.g., in IP piracy). With a growing shift ML the edge devices, part for performance and privacy benefits, have become susceptible so-called physical side-channel attacks. being relatively new target compared cryptography poses problem analy...

The aim of the Pirate Care project is to put politics back into caring and disrupt global property regime that colonising public welfare services turning them privately traded assets. Piracy refers all practices survival solidarity disobey unjust legal social rules support at expense living beings. idea piracy enables foregrounding need expand realm conceivable political responses crisis.

We use a 1998-2002 cross-section dataset to analyze the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the record industry. The results suggest that internet piracy played a significant role in the decline in music sales during the early days of file-sharing networks.

Recent rise in maritime piracy prompts the search for novel techniques for addressing the problem. We therefore developed AgentC, a prototype system that demonstrates how agent-based traffic management techniques can be used to improve the security of transit through piracy-affected areas. Combining agent-based modeling and simulation of maritime traffic and novel route planning and vessel sche...