BibTeX Record for
'Free riding and competition in network markets for digital goods'
@INPROCEEDINGS{AUS_HICSS2008,
author = {Andreas U. Schmidt},
title = {Free riding and competition in network markets for digital goods},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences (CD-ROM), January 7-10, 2008.},
year = {2008},
pages = {(10 pages)},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2008.176},
abstract = {We present a continuous, stochastic model
- the first of its kind - for the monetary flow in multi-level markets allowing for the
quantitative assessment of the incentive accruing to market participants
through resales revenues. The main application of the model is for
novel business models for the marketing of information goods, which
purport to yield alternatives to technical copyright protection
and DRM. We show analytically that within the scope of the mode
free-riding can be mitigated by employing multi-level marketing,
and that multi-level markets are open markets for competing information
goods.},
}