The pervasiveness of the illegal copying of software is a worldwide phenomenon. Software piracy implies a huge loss of … potential customers of original software buyers, which directly translates into revenue losses for the software industry. Given … this, conventional wisdom would suggest the need for the legal software firms and governments to take a harsh approach on …

This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional distributions of software … piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries for the period 1994-2010, using contemporary and non …-contemporary quantile regressions. The intuition for modelling distributions contingent on existing levels of software piracy is that the …

global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental … characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low …

. Findings - The main finding suggests that, software piracy is good for the poor as it has a positive income … role less stringent IPRs regimes play on income-redistribution through software piracy. Collateral benefits include among …

software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate … harmonizing IPRs regimes in the battle against software piracy. Three main findings are established. (1) African countries with … low software piracy rates are catching-up their counterparts with higher rates; implying despite existing divergent IPRs …

With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions in policy decision … instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on software piracy. The following findings are established …. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws (treaties) in the fight against software piracy. (2) Main …