FIGHTING INFORMATION GOODS PIRACY WITH VERSIONING

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 617-629

  Wu, Shin Yi ^a   Anandalingam, G ^b   Chen, Pei Yu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information goods; piracy; social welfare; versioning

Indexed keywords

CRIME; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

ADVANCED INFORMATIONS; DIGITAL INFORMATION; DISTRIBUTION MEDIA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION GOODS; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PIRACY; SOCIAL WELFARE; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; VERSIONING;

COSTS;

EID: 84957696862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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