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Piracy can be profitable to the pirated firm ?
[Le piratage peut-il être profitable à la firme piratée ?]

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  • Insaf Bekir

    (Université de Sousse)

  • Sana El Harbi

    (Université de Sousse)

  • Gilles Grolleau

    (LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier)

Abstract

Piracy is frequently considered as a reprehensible activity that harms the pirated firm. Our contribution reviews the different mechanisms and rationales supporting the idea that pirated firms may profit from the piracy (namely the indirect appropriation and bundled sales, the exposition effect and information acquisition, network effects, the Coase's time-inconsistency effect and the discovery of innovation and scarce talents). Beyond the theoretical arguments, we also devote attention to their relevance in the real world and show how they can lead to new policy insights.

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  • Insaf Bekir & Sana El Harbi & Gilles Grolleau, 2010. "Piracy can be profitable to the pirated firm ? [Le piratage peut-il être profitable à la firme piratée ?]," Post-Print hal-02660030, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02660030
    DOI: 10.3917/reco.614.0793
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