Title: | Digital Rights Management and Technological Tying |
Authors: | Kim, Jin-Hyuk - University of Cambridge |
Keywords: | digital rights management, copying, tying |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Series/Report no.: | Net Institute Working Paper;08-05 |
Abstract: | This paper analyzes DRM-based technological tying, where the content and hardware form a system. A closed DRM system makes the legal content incompatible with a rival's hardware, whose users must then obtain illegal copies. The main finding is that the tying firm gains market power in a competitive hardware market and invests in product upgrades at a later stage. Welfare implications of the policy that requires an open DRM system are also discussed. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/29476 |
Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series |
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