Digital game piracy

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dc.contributor.author	Drachen, Anders
dc.contributor.author	Bauer, Kevin
dc.contributor.author	Veitch, Robert W. D.
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-24
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-20T11:51:09Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-20T11:51:09Z
dc.date.issued	2012-08-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8495
dc.description.abstract	The practice of illegally copying and distributing digital games is at the heart of one of the most heated and divisive debates in the international games environment. Despite the substantial interest in game piracy, there is very little objective information available about its magnitude or its distribution across game titles and game genres. This paper presents the first large-scale, open-method analysis of the distribution of digital game titles, which was conducted by monitoring the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing protocol. The sample includes 173 games and a collection period of three months from late 2010 to early 2011. With a total of 12.6 million unique peers identified, it is the largest examination of game piracy via P2P networks to date. The study provides findings that reveal the magnitude of game piracy, the timefrequency of game torrents, which genres that get pirated the most, and the relationship between aggregated review scores and ESRB-ratings.	en_US
dc.format.extent	8	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.subject.other	Digital games	en_US
dc.subject.other	Game piracy	en_US
dc.subject.other	BitTorrent	en_US
dc.subject.other	Economics of piracy	en_US
dc.title	Digital game piracy	en_US
dc.type	cp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt12aug20 anmn	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for IT-Ledelse	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	ITM	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of IT Management	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	ITM	en_US
dc.description.notes	Preprint of paper presented at MindTrek 2011, 29-30 September 2011, Tampere, Finland	en_US
dc.idnumber	x65631678x	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2011	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	Analyzing the illegal distribution of digital games via BitTorrent	en_US