This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … 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 …

The software industry frequently maintains that software piracy is no more than theft and a cause of huge losses …. Courts and other policy makers easily adopt that straightforward argument. Surprisingly, however, many software publishers do … not employ any technological measures to protect their software from piracy and many popular software products are …