TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers
AU - Rasch, Alexander
AU - Wenzel, Tobias
PY - 2015/9/8
Y1 - 2015/9/8
N2 - This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on a two-sided platform business. User behavior is imperfect and, when adopting a platform, users 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.
AB - This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on a two-sided platform business. User behavior is imperfect and, when adopting a platform, users 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.
KW - Piracy
KW - Platform
KW - Software
KW - Two-sided market
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922746056&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2014.11.003
U2 - 10.1016/j.telpol.2014.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.telpol.2014.11.003
M3 - Article
VL - 39
SP - 735
EP - 744
JO - Telecommunications Policy
JF - Telecommunications Policy
SN - 0308-5961
IS - 8
ER -