Global software piracy: Can economic factors alone explains trend?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 70-75

  Bagchi, Kallol ^a   Kirs, Peeter ^a   Cerveny, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PRODUCTS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP); SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS; SOFTWARES PACKAGES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC POLICY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 33745890312     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1132469.1132470     Document Type: Review

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