Illegal online file sharing, decision-analysis, and the pricing of digital goods / Michael I.C. Nwogugu.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-280) and index.

Introduction -- Economic psychology issues inherent in illegal online filesharing by individuals and institutions; and illegal online filesharing as production systems -- Illegal online filesharing and information producers' strategies -- Complexity and optimal sanctions for illegal online filesharing, under un-constrained transferable utility and varying compliance -- Economics of digital content: new digital content-control and anti-P2P systems/methods -- The Freerider problem, inequality in networks and a critique of "tit-for-tat mechanisms" -- Pricing digital content: the marginal cost and open access controversies -- New models of dominance of allocations (in network games) that solve some of the problems inherent in Lorenz dominance -- Consumer surplus, equilibrium prices and the "enterprise value" of digital content -- Human decisions, optimal search and "stopping"; and the pricing of differentiated digital goods in legal P2P and client-server networks under un-constrained transferable utility and unknown demand; and three new network-allocation mechanisms -- Shapley value cannot be used in network access pricing, network cost allocation, the pricing of digital-content or analysis of electricity distribution networks -- Stackelberg analysis cannot be used in network access pricing, network cost-allocation or pricing of digital-content -- Illegal filesharing and network access pricing -- Conclusion.