Search Results - subject:"Filesharing"

Shankar, Kameshwari - In: Games 13 (2022) 5, pp. 1-25

This paper analyzes the choice between quality improvements and copyright litigation by a proprietary seller who faces a competitive threat from a content-sharing platform. The platform operates like a "public good" with contributors who share content and free-riders who only consume content...

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Private or Public Law Enforcement? The Case of Digital Piracy Policies with Non-monitored Illegal Behaviors

Darmon, Éric; Texier, Thomas Le - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2014

In the case of digital piracy should rights be publicly or privately enforced? The emergence of large-scale anti-piracy laws and the existence of non-monitored illegal channels raise important issues for the design of digital anti-piracy policies. In this paper, we study the impact of these two...

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Olson’s Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of Incentives to Contribute in P2P File-sharing Communities.

Pénard, Thierry; Dejean, Sylvain; Suire, Raphaël - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2011

This article aims to examine how the size of file-sharing communities affects their functioning and performance (i …. Using an original database on BitTorrent file-sharing communities, our article finds a positive relationship between the … decrease with community size. These results seem to indicate that Peer to Peer file-sharing communities provide a pure (non …

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Legal, Economic, and Cultural Aspects of file sharing

EIJK, Nico van; POORT, Joost; RUTTEN, Paul - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2010) 77, pp. 35-54

This contribution seeks to identify the short- and long-term economic and cultural effects of file sharing on music, films and games, while taking into account the legal context and policy developments. The short-term implications examined concern direct costs and benefits to society, whereas...

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Priority and internet quality

Kruse, Jörn - 2009

The significant increase of internet traffic is to a large extent caused by more high-data-rate applications like file-sharing …

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Priority and Internet Quality

Kruse, Joern - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2009

The significant increase of internet traffic is to a large extent caused by more high-data-rate applications like file-sharing …

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What can we learn from empirical studies about piracy ?

Dejean, Sylvain - HAL - 2009

The purpose of this article is to make an assessment of the empirical literature dedicated to the consequences of piracy on the cultural industry. The diversity of data collected and methodologies used by empirical studies make it difficult to compare the literature results. On the one hand,...

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The Music Market in the Age of Download

Grassi, Iacopo - 2007

Internet, mp3 files, peer-to-peer software and digital technologies for copying have radically modified the music sector. In this paper I present a theoretical model, that investigates the consequences of the appearance of a pirate low quality good (typically a mp3 file) in the music market. In...

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The Music Market in the Age of Download

Grassi, Iacopo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

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Pirates or Explorers ?Analysis of Music Consumption in French Graduate Schools

Bounies, David; Bourreau, Marc; Waelbroeck, Patrick - In: Brussels Economic Review 50 (2007) 2, pp. 167-192

. For the pirates, anonymous file-sharing on the internet and intranets has a negative effect on CD consumption, while …

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