Determinants of software piracy: economics, institutions, and technology
Determinants of software piracy: economics, institutions, and technology
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软件盗版的决定因素：经济、制度和技术
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2009
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M. A. Nelson
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R. Goel;M. A. Nelson
本文确定的各种影响软件盗版使用大样本的国家。特别是，我们的横断面研究估计的经济，制度和技术因素对盗版软件的影响。更全面地审视软件盗版的潜在决定因素，包括经济和非经济因素，可被视为对仍处于起步阶段的文献的主要贡献。结果表明，一个国家的发展阶段和治理质量对软件盗版的发生率影响最大。事实证明，更大的经济和政治自由对海盗行为产生了相反的影响。此外，互联网和计算机技术的更广泛传播，在其他条件相同的情况下，实际上促进了软件的法律的使用。较高的上网价格也减少了盗版行为，电话费的影响比互联网上网费的影响更为明显。不同类型的法律的机构和细分对海盗行为的影响有很大差异。城乡数字鸿沟对软件盗版的影响不显著。总体而言，经济，制度和技术因素对软件盗版产生重要影响，尽管存在一些质和量的差异。政策影响进行了讨论。
This paper determines the various influences on software piracy using a large sample of countries. In particular, our cross-sectional study estimates the effects of economic, institutional and technical factors on the piracy of software. A more comprehensive look at potential determinants of software piracy, including economic and non-economic factors, may be considered as the main contribution to a literature that is still in its infancy. Results show that a country’s stage of development and the quality of governance have the largest impact on the incidence of software piracy. Greater economic and political freedoms are shown to have opposite effects on piracy. Further, greater diffusion of the Internet and of computer technologies, other things equal, actually promote the legal use of software. Higher access prices also reduce piracy, with the impact of telephone charges being more pronounced than that of Internet access fees. There are significant variations in the impacts of different types of legal institutions and of fractionalization on piracy. The influence of digital divide between rural and urban areas does not significantly affect the piracy of software. Overall, economic, institutional, and technological factors exert important influences on software piracy, albeit with some qualitative and quantitative differences. Policy implications are discussed.