Online Piracy and the 'Longer Arm' of Enforcement

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dc.contributor.ORCID0000-0003-3174-8014 (Lahiri, A)
dc.contributor.authorDey, D.
dc.contributor.authorKim, A.
dc.contributor.authorLahiri, Atanu
dc.contributor.utdAuthorLahiri, Atanu
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-08T21:49:59Z
dc.date.available2019-11-08T21:49:59Z
dc.date.created2018-05-07
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dc.description.abstractControlling digital piracy has remained a top priority for manufacturers of information goods, as well as for many governments around the world. Among the many forms taken by digital piracy, we focus on an increasingly common one-namely, online piracy-that is facilitated by torrent sites and cyberlockers who bring together consumers of pirated content and its suppliers. Motivated by recent empirical literature that makes a clear distinction between antipiracy efforts that restrict supply of pirated goods (supply-side enforcement) and ones that penalize illegal consumption (demand-side enforcement), we develop a simple economic model and discover some fundamental differences between these two types in terms of their impacts on innovation and welfare. All in all, supply-side enforcement turns out to be the 'longer arm'-it has a more desirable economic impact in the long run. Our results have clear implications for manufacturers, consumers, and policy makers. ©2018 INFORMS.
dc.description.departmentNaveen Jindal School of Management
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationDey, D., A. Kim, and A. Lahiri. 2019. "Online piracy and the 'longer arm' of enforcement." Management Science 65(3): 1173-1190, doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2984
dc.identifier.issn0025-1909
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/7095
dc.identifier.volume65
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherINFORMS--Inst.for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
dc.relation.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2984
dc.rights©2018 INFORMS
dc.source.journalManagement Science
dc.subjectPiracy--Online
dc.subjectCrime
dc.subjectEconomic impact analysis
dc.subjectEconomics--Mathematical models
dc.subjectComputer crimes
dc.titleOnline Piracy and the 'Longer Arm' of Enforcement
dc.type.genrearticle

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