Analysis of Digital Rights Management for the Consumer Behaviors and the Implications for the Digital Content Industry

作者：Xiong Li; Chen Peng^*

来源：3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2013-11-29 To 2013-12-01.

DOI：10.2991/icmt-13.2013.38

• information consumption
• digital content
• digital right management

With the rapid development of ICT technologies, the digital content copyright infringement has become more and more convenient and common. As a result, DRM (digital rights management) are introduced in order to protect all kinds of digital content from being pirated. This paper researches the controversial DRM and its impacts on consumer infringements. Firstly, the utility and the function of consumer behavior is analyzed and constructed as well as digital content market welfare under digital rights management environment. Secondly, the effects of different factors, such as price, valuation and pirate penalty on consumer behaviors and their relationships with market profits are studied elaborately. Finally, we draw conclusions as well as suggestions that are helpful to alleviate digital content pirate and manage the digital rights effectively.

• 出版日期2013
• 单位上海大学