Piracy-Minimizing Non-Linear Pricing Of Digital Goods With Unknown Demand And Price-Based Coordination In 'Open Cooperative' Peer-To-Peer Networks

24 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2009 Last revised: 21 Jan 2018

Date Written: 2010

Abstract

Although the number of “legal” online filesharing networks has increased, Digital Piracy has become more pervasisve and affects several industries such as new/information, entertainment, education, sports, etc. The main objectives of this article are a) to develop pricing schemes (for digital content) that reduce the information producers’ losses from copyright infringement while maximizing social welfare, b) analyze how the present mispricing of internet access contributes to illegal online file-sharing.

Suggested Citation

Nwogugu, Michael C. I., Piracy-Minimizing Non-Linear Pricing Of Digital Goods With Unknown Demand And Price-Based Coordination In 'Open Cooperative' Peer-To-Peer Networks (2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1515513 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1515513

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