Software piracy committed by university students in the metro states of India has been published widely in various computer literatures. However very little has been reported about why and what proportion of students, particularly IT students, in a Northern State like J&K, uses pirated software. In this paper a survey was conducted among the computer science students of different educational in...

The joint impact of piracy and network externality increases the R&D investment of a single firm if the network effect dominates the piracy effect. With R&D competition, if the firms “significantly” differ with respect to the efficiency in R&D investment and if the piracy effect dominates the network effect then the less efficient firm‟s investment increases and that of the more efficient firm‟...

In this qualitative research, music piracy among the youth was studied by applying Sykes’ and Matza’s neutralization theory. The key objective of the study was to find out how youths view music piracy, and how they give accounts for it using techniques of neutralization. According to the conducted semi-structured interviews, youths do acknowledge the ethical and economic problems of music pirac...

Software piracy is a persistent and serious problem. In recent years, progress has been made to reduce software piracy. However, computer software is greatly susceptible to theft and market influences have recently contributed to a staggering $48 billion worldwide loss due to piracy (BSA, 2008). This paper outlines research in progress that will provide insight into software piracy attitude and...

Bundling has been a widely used selling strategy in the software industry. In terms of fighting against software piracy, the bundling of software applications that are prone to different levels of piracy has been proposed as a way to minimize the negative impact due to software piracy. Until recently, software implementations have mostly been at the client’s end, which requires a variety of ant...

Taking countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this paper analyzes factors affecting their software piracy rate (SPR) by taking into account several economic and technological variables. The empirical results show that per capita GDP (PerGDP), inflation, consumer prices (ICP), unemployment rate (UR), and high-technology exports (HTE) have positive correla...

Pay-TV piracy in Europe is affecting the legal providers of Pay-TV services. This paper describes the main players in the European Pay-TV market, the Conditional Access Systems (CAS) used in the European Union (EU 15), the European PayTV piracy market, and the most important technologies used. The paper then discusses the effects of Pay-TV piracy on the CAS providers and Pay-TV service provider...

On the surface, the recent mobilization of opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) over the internet appears to be yet another cyberactivism success. Yet, the antiSOPA movement should have been doomed to failure for two reasons. First, the issue was too abstract to mobilize local kinship and friendship groups. Second, because mass media interests were served by the bill, mass media was ...

This research investigates the determinants of software piracy using panel data analysis. Our dataset contains eleven countries in the Far East during the period 1995 to 2006. Our major empirical result shows a negative relationship between software piracy and the unemployment rate, per capita GDP, and the balance of trade, but a positive relationship in population and economic freedom. These r...

We explain strategic piracy in the software industry as a result of the presence of learning costs in the context of intertemporal price discrimination. First, piracy can be a means to incite consumers to invest in human capital, which increases their propensity to pay and enables the firm to raise prices. Second, the presence of piracy induces a more efficient intertemporal price discrimination.