Network Externality and Commercial Software Piracy

Sougata Poddar ()

Departmental Working Papers from National University of Singapore, Department of Economics

Abstract: Contrary to the earlier findings under end-users piracy where the existence of strong network externality was shown to be a reason for allowing limited piracy, we find when the piracy is commercial in nature the optimal policy for the original software developer is to protect its product irrespective of the strength of network externality in the software users market.

Keywords: Copyright violations; Commercial/Retail piracy; Network externality; Quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D43 L13 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mic, nep-net and nep-reg
Date: 2005-12
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