While substantial effort has been devoted to understand fraudulent activity in traditional
online advertising (search and banner), more recent forms such as video ads have received …

To mitigate the attacks by malicious peers and to isolate them in peer-to-peer (P2P)
networks, several reputation systems have been proposed in the past. The relative ranking …

Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanisms allowing
any third party to file complaints (eg, requesting the de-listing of a URL from a search …

To balance the load and to discourage the free-riding in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, many
incentive mechanisms and policies have been proposed in the recent years. Global peer …

Abstract Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are a class of network systems distinguished by their
capacity for large-scale distributed information sharing. In this context, a number of novel …

Digital piracy has received significant attention in criminological research but almost no
studies have explored illegal uploading and how it may differ from illegal downloading. It is …

Despite a rich literature on switching costs in traditional markets, little has been said on the
context of competition between pirate and legal providers. With a sizeable literature on the …

Digital disruption toppled or transformed most of the incumbent business models in the
creative industries. The American comic book market faced the same processes driven by …

Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanisms allowing
any third party to file complaints (eg, requesting the de-listing of a URL from a search …

The open and anonymous environment of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks gives an opportunity
to everyone to interact with the others; at the same time it brings new security threats. The …