Pirated for profit.
This paper explains why a software manufacturer may permit limited piracy of its software. Piracy can be viewed as a form of price discrimination in which the manufacturer sells some of the software at a price of zero. In the presence of significant network externalities for the software, it may b...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Economics Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 886 - 900 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
October 1998
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