Arbeitspapier

The impact of piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on a two-sided platform business. Consumer behavior is imperfect and, when adopting a platform, consumers only take prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased software protection. Indeed, we show that prominent developers may lose out whereas non-prominent developers may gain from better software protection.

ISBN
978-3-86304-166-3
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 167

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
Thema
Piracy
Platform
Software
Two-sided market

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rasch, Alexander
Wenzel, Tobias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
(wo)
Düsseldorf
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rasch, Alexander
  • Wenzel, Tobias
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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