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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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. |
Thanks Steve. There are many results. A few which I noted are:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...744joce1402_01
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...67923610002137
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=825165