It is estimated that the current annual loss to US economy due to piracy of digital content is ab... more It is estimated that the current annual loss to US economy due to piracy of digital content is about $9.2 billion. Currently, there are two solutions to this problem. One is a technical solution where copying of content is rendered infeasible. The other is legal in the form of copyright, digital theft and other laws. Neither of the two, by themselves or together, is effective. Hackers develop counter measures to new technical solution. Furthermore, there could be a consumer backlash against the content providers who burden the consumers with additional technical steps for content installation and reuse. Due to the small monetary value of each piece of content, laws cannot be equitably enforced or not enforced at all. In this paper, we propose a fourdimensional solution to this problem. Two of these dimensions are technical and legal. The other two are business and social dimensions. We hypothesize that the latter two, combined with the first two, provide a rounded and holistic solut...
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