Music downloads and the flip side of digital rights management

Marketing Science

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1011-1027

  Vernik, Dinah A ^a   Purohit, Devavrat ^b   Desai, Preyas S ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive analysis; Digital music; Entertainment marketing; Game theory; Piracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455179655     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1110.0668     Document Type: Article

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