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

Alexander Rasch; Tobias Wenzel

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2014.11.003

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

Alexander Rasch
, Tobias Wenzel

Department of Economics

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	735-744
Journal	Telecommunications Policy
Volume	39
Issue number	8
Early online date	23 Jan 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2014.11.003
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2015

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Piracy
Platform
Software
Two-sided market

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