A survey on software piracy empirical literature: Stylized facts and theory

Gomes, Nicolas Dias; Cerqueira, Pedro André; Alçada-Almeida, Luís

doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2015.07.008

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“…Second, product design and development almost exclusively involve digital media, making confidentiality protection more difficult, and ostensibly more critical, than in manufacturing contexts (Massimino et al, 2018). Third, confidentiality performance is paramount as confidentiality losses may severely erode product sales and revenue streams (Craig, 2005; Gomes, Cerqueira, & Almeida, 2015; Han et al, 2014; Lu et al, 2019; Ma et al, 2014). Fourth, confidentiality losses (i.e., when the product is leaked to an illegal‐channel market) can be reliably identified in this industry (Craig, 2005; Massimino et al, 2017), remedying a nontrivial data‐availability problem facing similar empirical research (Massimino et al, 2018).…”

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The effects of product development network positions on product performance and confidentiality performance

Lan

Massimino

Gray

et al. 2020

J of Ops Management

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Product development networks facilitate access to information, knowledge, and technologies that are otherwise difficult to obtain during innovation activities. Most current research on networks focuses on studying product performance benefits, but ignores the potential negative effects on confidentiality performance. Addressing this gap, we investigate how two key components of a firm's network position-network centrality and structural holes-affect both product and confidentiality performance. To do this, we assemble a panel of 1,468 electronic video games designed and developed by 591 developers over an 11-year period. We find that higher network centrality relates to better product performance but worse confidentiality performance. Meanwhile, firms spanning more structural holes enjoy better performance across both dimensions. In an exploratory analysis, we find that product novelty strengthens the positive relationship between network centrality and product performance but mutes the positive relationship between structural holes and product performance. We discuss the importance of these findings to the literature on innovation in inter-organizational networks.

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Section: Industry Context and Product Development Networkmentioning

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The effects of product development network positions on product performance and confidentiality performance

Lan

Massimino

Gray

et al. 2020

J of Ops Management

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“…Among the simplest relations, Gomes et al (2015) found the relation of variables such as education and per capita GDP with lower levels of piracy, although with inequality, this relation is negative. But there are more complex variables to measurewhich also affect growth, and are not observed, such as cultural issues.…”

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Effects of Software Piracy on Economic Growth

Fernandez¹,

Ribeiro²,

Duarte³

2018

IJEF

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“…For a deeper and systematic review of the literature on the piracy of digital products, the interested reader is advised to look at the excellent and comprehensive surveys in Peitz and Waelbroeck (2006) and Belle ‡amme and Peitz (2012) and(2014). Also Gomes, et al 2015 provides a set of stylized facts about software piracy and related theory.…”

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“…By this term we understand a hardware device that is integrated with software and used to protect and license the software (see Djekic and Loebbecke 2007 device is used, installing an illegal version of the software is signi…cantly more di¢ cult either because of low availability of the illegal version or because of the high demand on the users' skill to install (or use) the illegal version. Given empirical evidence that every protection can be cracked (see Djekic andLoebbecke 2007 andGomes et al, 2015), we assume that perfect hardware based protection does not exist. After installation, however, a user does not distinguish between an illegal version and the legal one.…”

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Private and Public IPR Protection in a Vertically Differentiated Software Duopoly

2020

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We study the interaction between public and private intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in a duopoly in which software developers offer a product variety of differing quality and compete for heterogeneous users, who have an option to buy a legal version, possibly use an illegal copy, or not buy a product at all. Illegal usage implies violation of IPR and is punishable. A developer may use private IPR protection for his software if the level of piracy is high. An important intermediate step in our analysis addresses firms' pricing strategies and the analysis of the impact of both private and public IPR protection on these strategies (with monopoly serving as a benchmark case). Last but not least, we make some comparisons with an analogous model based on horizontal product differentiation.

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A survey on software piracy empirical literature: Stylized facts and theory

Cited by 11 publications

References 46 publications

The effects of product development network positions on product performance and confidentiality performance

The effects of product development network positions on product performance and confidentiality performance

Effects of Software Piracy on Economic Growth

Private and Public IPR Protection in a Vertically Differentiated Software Duopoly

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