Why internet service provider and content provider do not collaborate via monitoring of digital piracy

Jeonghoon Mo, Jungju Park, Nari Im, Jiwon Park and Hansol Kim

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2017, vol. 60, issue C, 49-61

Abstract: Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers (CPs) have a symbiosis relationship in the Internet business ecosystem. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of and the conditions for their revenue sharing by means of on-line content piracy monitoring. CPs can benefit from the efforts of ISPs to monitor illegal content consumers, and can have the incentives to collaborate with ISPs. We suggest that if the quality degradation of a pirated content is low as in real world, there may not be a successful collaboration because CPs have little incentives to share their revenues with ISPs. We also investigated the impacts of ISP's piracy monitoring cost level, the value of contents, and CP's access fee per traffic on the possibility of their collaboration.

Keywords: Internet service provider; Content provider; Revenue sharing; Piracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2017.02.004

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