Pricing schemes for digital content with DRM mechanisms

Yung-Ming Li; Chia Hao Lin

doi:10.1016/j.dss.2009.05.015

Pricing schemes for digital content with DRM mechanisms

Yung-Ming Li^*, Chia Hao Lin

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Information Management

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Abstract

In this paper, utilizing game-theoretic model, we examine the impact of collaborative structure, content quality, and network environment on the development of pricing scheme and DRM protection policy of digital content. DRM protection level decreases and pirating activities becomes relatively tolerable as the content provider and platform provider operate collaboratively. Depending on the market structure, higher content quality may strengthen or weaken the adoption of DRM. However, it would seem that, as the network environment becomes more decentralized and uncontrolled, weaker DRM protection should be a better strategy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	528-539
Number of pages	12
Journal	Decision Support Systems
Volume	47
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2009.05.015
State	Published - 1 Nov 2009

Keywords

Content quality
Digital Right Management
Digital content
Network diffusion
Pricing scheme
System collaboration

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