Policy Implications Ramnath K. Chellappa [email protected] Yuanyuan Chen [email protected] Sriram Venkataraman [email protected] Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322 Abstract Piracy threatens the very existence of the global software industry, and there is relatively little understanding of the impact of so called benefits of piracy, and the efficacy of legal strategi...

Due to increase in threats posed by offshore foundries, the companies outsourcing IPs are forced protect their designs from foundries. Few of IP piracy, counterfeiting and reverse engineering. To overcome these, logic encryption has been observed be a leading countermeasure against faced. It introduces extra gates design, known as key which hide functionality design unless correct keys fed them...

A 2 2 2 model with endogenous process innovation describes two regimes for international technology transfer: multinational enterprise, in which the innovating rm receives all rents from foreign and domestic use of the innovation, and piracy, in which some are all of the rents are kept in the technology-receiving country. Piracy increases the unit requirements for the factor which is scarce in ...

Piracy continues to be a threat to global economy. Previous literature on factors influencing individual’s attitude towards piracy indicates that as perceived risk increases, individuals attitude of acceptance of piracy should decrease. In spite of the increased risks, some people pirate, there has been no explanation for this apparent paradox. We try to explain this paradox by using the concep...

The impact of global piracy on the US software industry has largely been understood through analysis of data from Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing the world's largest software makers. While the impact of cultural and legal factors on global piracy has been individually examined by prior research, we present a theory-based structural two-stage piracy model that not only inc...

Software piracy refers to the illegal use of software by end users. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) in its 2002 annual report states that 40% of business software installed on computers is pirated, resulting in $11 billion in losses (BSA 2002). Given that piracy is ubiquitous in software markets, managers need to consider it in their marketing decisions. While piracy on a large scale is cl...

There is, perhaps, no more visible financial dilemma in the software industry today than that of software piracy. In this paper, we detail the development and empirical validation of a predictive model of software piracy behavior by computer-using professionals. The model was developed from the results of prior research in software piracy and the reference disciplines of the theory of planned b...

Online piracy of copyrighted digital music has become rampant as internet bandwidth and digital compression technologies have advanced. The music industry has suffered significant financial losses and has responded with lawsuits, though online music piracy remains prevalent. More effective approaches to fighting music piracy can be developed with the aid of an understanding of individual attitu...

This paper analyses the effect of piracy on innovation in the presence of R&D competition with technological and market uncertainty. With a single innovating firm facing technological uncertainty, piracy unambiguously retards innovation. However, with R&D competition where firms face market and technological uncertainties, we show that piracy may enhance overall innovation. We also show that if...

D distribution channels raise many new challenges for managers in the media industry. This is particularly true for movie studios where high-value content can be stolen and released through illegitimate digital channels, even prior to the release of the movie in legal channels. In response to this potential threat, movie studios have spent millions of dollars to protect their content from unaut...