Research on the Economic Impact of Software Industry Piracy on Large Enterprises
Chenxi Wang · Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences · 2025
The problem of piracy has always been an important factor affecting the operation and development of software technology companies, and the core purpose of studying piracy is to enable enterprises to deal with the impact of piracy in a reasonable and effective way to the greatest extent. This paper examines the impact of piracy on the economic cost, brand independence, product innovation, and network externalities of leading large enterprises in the software industry. Finally, it is concluded that the impact of piracy actually has advantages and disadvantages, and enterprises can offset the negative impact of piracy to the greatest extent by adopting reasonable means of copyright protection, active product innovation strategies, timely product promotion and online marketing. Harness the positive impact of piracy.