BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Piracy
- illegal copying of a product such as software or music
Wiktionary Definition for: Piracy
- # nautical robbery at sea; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it
- a similar act of robbery, such as hijacking of an aircraft
- the unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law (eg copying software unlawfully)
- the operation of an unlicensed radio or television station
Additional Resources
- Music Biz Appoints An Anti-Piracy Tsar
- Perhaps a recognition that even governments’ plans to suspend freeloaders’ internet accounts won’t kill piracy… record labels, via their International Federation for the Phonographic Industry umbrella, are beefing up their anti-piracy efforts.The IFPI is promoting its head of internet anti-piracy Jeremy Banks to be its first ever director of...
- External links 2009-09-28
- Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing and Protection
- This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules and technological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy where sellers can influence the degree of piracy by implementing Digital Rights Management DRM systems. It is shown that a monopolist's optimal pricing schedule can be characterized as a simple combination...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Fox discovers an enemy within: employee found to be part of piracy group, stored films on server.(Piracy)(20th Century Fox Home Entertainment employee online piracy case)
- Anti-piracy officials at 20th Century Fox Entertainment followed a trail of bread crumbs back to their own house last month when a Fox employee was discovered to be operating an online piracy ring from studio computers. According to a sworn a...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Chinese court jails 11 in Microsoft piracy
- SHANGHAI: A court in southern China has convicted 11 people of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed pirated Microsoft software throughout the world. The men were sentenced by a court in the city of Shenzhen to between one and one-half...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Welfare
- This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules and technological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy, when legal sellers can sometimes control the extent of piracy by implementing digital rights management DRM systems. It is shown that the seller's optimal pricing schedule can be characterized as a...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Piracy and Quality Choice in Monopolistic Markets
- This paper studies the impact of piracy on the quality choices of a monopolist. In the absence of piracy, the monopolist has no incentive to differentiate its products. With piracy the monopolist might in- stead produce more than one quality, so that differentiation arises as the optimal strategy. This is...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Piracy And Innovation: Does Piracy Restore Competition?
- One of the main issues usually associated with piracy is that it hinders innovation. As this leads to smaller profits, firms have no incentive to innovate. In this article, we show that even if piracy is usually seen as innovation "Killer" it may, on the contrary, increase innovation: piracy places...
- White papers 2004-05-10
- Piracy.(BOOKS AND REPORTS)
- BNA International London has also released "Piracy and Brand Awareness," a new report designed to help practitioners and executives protect themselves from counterfeiting and piracy. Content includes an overview of what constitutes piracy BNA International London has also released "Piracy and Brand Awareness," a new...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Study Finds Software Piracy Falling in Many Countries, but Challenge Shifting to Emerging, High-Growth Markets
- Software Piracy Rates Fall in Sixty-Seven Countries; Worldwide Piracy Rate Rises Three Points to 38% WASHINGTON -- Although piracy of software on personal computers PC declined in many countries in 2007, fast growing PC markets in some of the world's highest piracy nations caused overall numbers to worsen--a trend...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- The Effect of Quality Differentiation, Piracy and Product Sampling on Digital Product Pricing Strategies
- Piracy is an impending threat to the success of electronic markets for digital products. This paper develops a pricing model for vertically differentiated product markets such as online movies that are subject to piracy threats. Drawing upon pricing of experience goods, a model developed through a contract-theoretic lens and introduce...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Crime of the '90s; a victory at hand in worsening piracy war.
- Crime of the '90s A VICTORY AT HAND IN WORSENING PIRACY WAR Cable operators would win a "monumental" victory in the war against cable piracy if an imminent federal court ruling goes their way, according to Cablevision Systems Corp. exe Crime...
- Research articles 1992-02-10
- Congress urged to hound pirates' harbors.(representatives of entertainment industry address congress on copyright piracy)(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON--Representatives of the movie, music and videogame industries pressed lawmakers last week to keep pressure on foreign governments to crack down on copyright piracy. Although most of the attention given to piracy recently in the U.S. WASHINGTON--Representatives of the...
- Research articles 2002-02-18
- Macrovision unveils new PPV anti-piracy system. (Macrovision Inc.'s foray into pay-per-view television security)
- Macrovision Unveils New PPV Anti-Piracy System Macrovision Inc., well-established in home video as the creator and marketer of the Macrovision anti-piracy system for cassettes, is making a foray into pay-per-view security with a new technology c Macrovision Unveils New PPV Anti-Piracy...
- Research articles 1991-04-15
- Justice Department Announces Four Pleas in Internet Music Piracy Crackdown
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The first guilty pleas involving members of pre-release music piracy groups from Operation FastLink, a major Department of Justice initiative against online piracy worldwide, were announced today by Assistant AttorneWASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The first guilty pleas involving members of pre-release music...
- Research articles 2006-02-28
- Argentina: Trends in software piracy.
- Software Legal, the Argentinean branch for the BSA Business Software Alliance reports that the computer programs piracy rate dropped from 71% in 1996 to 62% in 1998. Despite the reduction, piracy still represents a loss of US$123.8mil to softwar Software Legal, the Argentinean...
- Research articles 1999-09-15
- Windows Of Opportunity: Steve D'Onofrio talks with head of Microsoft Worldwide Anti-piracy Investigations, Richard LaMagna.(Brief Article)(Interview)(Statistical Data Included)
- Steve D'Onofrio, President of D'Onofrio & Associates spoke recently with Richard LaMagna, Microsoft senior manager, worldwide Anti-Piracy Investigations, about the issue of software piracy. After a 28-year career as a federal narcotics agent with Steve D'Onofrio, President of D'Onofrio & Associates spoke recently with Richard...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Macrovision Study Reveals Widespread Gaming Piracy
- DVD News 03-14-2005 Macrovision Study Reveals Widespread Gaming Piracy DVD NEWS-March 14, 2005-Macrovision Study Reveals Widespread Gaming Piracy C1999-2005 DVD News. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). DVD News ...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- MPAA Releases New Piracy Loss Data; Comprehensive Snapshot of Film Theft Provides International Anti-Piracy Roadmap
- WASHINGTON, May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. MPAA today released new information about piracy from a comprehensive study done by LEK Consulting that the association is using as a roadmap to help fight piracy worldWASHINGTON, May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Motion Picture Association...
- Research articles 2006-05-03
- Paraguay: Fighting software piracy.
- The Paraguayan branch of the Business Software Alliance reported it has found in corporations cases of piracy of computer programs from Microsoft and Symantec that will be punished with the law. BSA estimates that software piracy has costed Paraguay The Paraguayan branch of the Business...
- Research articles 2000-08-21
- Curbing piracy in a digitally perfect world. (compact disc piracy)(includes related article)
- Despite Some U.S. Victories, The Difficult Battle Against CD Piracy Continues Around the world, technology wizards and those responsible for protecting intellectual property rack their brains daily and are continually developing ideas and strategies to combat piracy. Great strides have been made within North...
- Research articles 1995-06-01
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