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Originally Posted by darryl
A Google search using the words "piracy price sensitivity" yields many results. I quickly noted two scholarly articles which appear to support my belief, though they unfortunately require payment.
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I didn't spot, with any certainty, the links in question. Since I have library access to most journals, I'd be glad to check them out.
Obviously there is some level of piracy price sensitivity, given certain stipulations. I doubt it amounts to much in real life, since the ratio of free to any given price is still infinite. One
non-blocked paper claims that piracy isn't really free, since there is some probability of going to jail. I didn't find that convincing, given the vanishing small rate of downloading piracy prosecutions -- for eBook downloading, I believe the rate is zero. This suggests to me that the price sensitivity of downloading is probably less than for traditional retail theft, where there really is a cost of punishment to balance against the value of the item purloined.