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Global software piracy: you can't get blood out of a turnip

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 43 , Issue 9 (September 2000) table of contents

Pages: 82 - 89

Year of Publication: 2000

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Ram D. Gopal	Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
G. Lawrence Sanders	State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 14

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	Seung Kyoon Shin , Ram D. Gopal , G. Lawrence Sanders , Andrew B. Whinston, Global software piracy revisited, Communications of the ACM, v.47 n.1, p.103-107, January 2004
	Sudip Bhattacharjee , Ram D. Gopal , Kaveepan Lertwachara , James R. Marsden, Economic of online music, Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic commerce, p.300-309, September 30-October 03, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Sudip Bhattacharjee , Ram D. Gopal , G. Lawrence Sanders, Digital music and online sharing: software piracy 2.0?, Communications of the ACM, v.46 n.7, p.107-111, July 2003
	Christian S. Collberg , Clark Thomborson, Watermarking, tamper-proffing, and obfuscation: tools for software protection, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.28 n.8, p.735-746, August 2002
	Trevor T. Moores, The effect of national culture and economic wealth on global software piracy rates, Communications of the ACM, v.46 n.9, September 2003
	Timothy A. Budd, Protecting and Managing Electronic Content with a Digital Battery, Computer, v.34 n.8, p.24-30, August 2001
	Trevor T. Moores , Jasbir Dhaliwal, A reversed context analysis of software piracy issues in Singapore, Information and Management, v.41 n.8, p.1037-1042, November 2004
	Alok Mishra , Ibrahim Akman , Ali Yazici, Organizational software piracy: an empirical assessment, Behaviour & Information Technology, v.26 n.5, p.437-444, September 2007
	A. Graham Peace , Dennis F. Galletta , James Y. L. Thong, Software Piracy in the Workplace: A Model and Empirical Test, Journal of Management Information Systems, v.20 n.1, p.153-177, Number 1/Summer 2003
	Barry Brown , Abigail J. Sellen , Erik Geelhoed, Music sharing as a computer supported collaborative application, Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, p.179-198, September 16-20, 2001, Bonn, Germany
	Sudip Bhattacharjee , Ram Gopal , Kaveepan Lertwachara , James Marsden, Consumer Search and Retailer Strategies in the Presence of Online Music Sharing, Journal of Management Information Systems, v.23 n.1, p.129-159, Number 1 / Summer 2006
	Clyde W. Holsapple , Deepak Iyengar , Haihao Jin , Shashank Rao, Parameters for Software Piracy Research, The Information Society, v.24 n.4, p.199-218, July 2008
	Moutaz Khouja , Sungjune Park, Optimal Pricing of Digital Experience Goods Under Piracy, Journal of Management Information Systems, v.24 n.3, p.109-141, Number 3 / Winter 2007-2008

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING

Additional Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING

General Terms:
Economics, Legal Aspects

REVIEW

"Gregory M. Aharonian : Reviewer"

Software lends itself very easily to piracy, especially in the Internet era, costing software manufacturers billions of dollars per year. Three issues nicely reported on by the authors are the amount of piracy that actually takes place, how mu more...

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Ram D. Gopal: colleagues

G. Lawrence Sanders: colleagues

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