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Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The Case of Phantom Piracy
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In an attempt to protect their intellectual property and compete effectively in an increasingly dynamic marketplace, software producers have employed a number of preventive and deterrent measures to counter software piracy. Conventional wisdom suggests that reducing piracy will force consumers to legitimately acquire software, thus increasing firm profits. In this paper, we develop an analytica...
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One of the main issues usually associated with piracy is that it hinders innovation. As this leads to smaller profits, firms have no incentive to innovate. In this article, we show that even if piracy is usually seen as innovation “killer” it may, on the contrary, increase innovation: piracy places firms in a highly competitive environment and pushes them to innovate continuously in order to ma...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Conservation Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0888-8892
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01682.x