@inproceedings{3db5f40c8caf4520adee0e3934d7a6be,
title = "Trading higher software piracy for higher profits: The case of phantom piracy",
abstract = "This paper analytically explores the effect of software bundling on software piracy. We focus on piracy at individual user level where several individuals illegitimately share a single copy of software. We develop an economic model of software piracy with bundling of two products that are not identically distributed. We derive results for optimal level of piracy and profits for individual products as well as for the bundle. Our results indicate that bundling results in a level of piracy that is always less than the piracy level of one of the products of the bundle. However, it is possible to trade off the piracy level of one product for overall higher profits, i.e., a seller can derive higher profits even with higher levels of piracy for one of the products in the bundle. We derive exact bounds for two cases: (i) where piracy level of the bundle is smaller than the piracy level of both the products in the bundle, and (ii) where the profits from a bundle are always higher even with higher piracy level than one of the products.",
keywords = "Computer aided software engineering, Computer crime, Computer industry, Globalization, Imaging phantoms, Industrial training, Information technology, Licenses, Manufacturing industries, Software tools",
author = "R. Gopal and A. Gupta",
year = "2002",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/HICSS.2002.994188",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "2491--2498",
editor = "Sprague, {Ralph H.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002",
note = "35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002 ; Conference date: 07-01-2002 Through 10-01-2002",
}