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The Challenges of Regulating Warez Trading

Eric Goldman
Santa Clara University - School of Law

Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 23, No. 24, 2005

Abstract:
This short essay analyzes the policy challenges of legally conforming the behavior of warez traders. The essay discusses the motivations for warez trading, how criminalizing the behavior may counterproductively encourage it, and why legislators and prosecutors continue to target warez trading despite the counterproductive effects.

Keywords: Warez, trading, traders, copyright infringement, pirates, abandonware

JEL Classifications: K14, 033, 034

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Date posted: January 24, 2005 ; Last revised: February 09, 2006

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Goldman, Eric, The Challenges of Regulating Warez Trading. Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 23, No. 24, 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=652702

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