Review of Digital Piracy Control Strategies from the Perspectives of Law, Technique and Business Operation

Abstract

Abstract:

Technological advances in digitalization and peer-to-peer networking communications technologies have transformed digital industry into one of the important components of global economy, and have aggravated digital piracy on the other hand, thus arousing great attention from both academia and business circles. In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of traditional piracy control methods under the behavioral-agents' dynamic game framework, and point out that previous researches analyze piracy problem only from one or two facets, which are far from meeting the requirments of current digital piracy control. Based on the review, we propose future directions for researches. That is, from the angle of market entities' behavioral decisions, taking into accounts strategic interactions among government policy, firm's business strategy and consumers 'self-selection behavior, researchers should focus on designing a theoretical analysis framework which could integrate mulilevel driving factors affecting digital piracy behaviors into a whole, so as to decide on effective piracy control strategies combinations, which can provide some guidelines on how to set up effective digital copyright protection policy for policy makers and how to choose appropriate technological protection levels and pricing schemes for digital goods firms.

Key words: digital goods, piracy control, strategy combinations, behavior decision, dynamic game

Lin Xudong, Ma Lijun, Tian Xin. Review of Digital Piracy Control Strategies from the Perspectives of Law, Technique and Business Operation[J]. , 2018, 30(6): 93-103.

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