Revisiting the incentive to tolerate illegal distribution of software products

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 357-367

  Lahiri, Atanu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Network effect; Patch distribution; Software distribution; Software piracy; Software security

Indexed keywords

NETWORK EFFECTS; PATCH DISTRIBUTION; SECURITY VULNERABILITIES; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTIONS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE SECURITY;

CRIME; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84861098681     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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