DocumentCode
2317801
Title
Broadcasting forever
Author
Altman, Eitan ; Haviv, Moshe
Author_Institution
INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
fYear
2009
fDate
13-15 May 2009
Firstpage
484
Lastpage
487
Abstract
In a pay-per-view scheme, a service provider multicasts the program for which it has the rights on demand only to those who have paid for it. However, once payments are made it is tempting to broadcast the program to all. This occurs both in order to increase advertising revenues (due to a higher rating) and due to the extra costs associated with multicasting in comparison with broadcasting. Of course, this can be done only once as reputation will then be lost. We describe a pricing mechanism which results in broadcasting while still causing those willing to pay, to do so and at the monopoly price.
Keywords
broadcasting; pricing; broadcasting; monopoly price; pay-per-view scheme; pricing mechanism; service provider; Advertising; Costs; Decoding; Electronic mail; Marine vehicles; Monopoly; Pricing; Statistics; TV broadcasting; Watches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Game Theory for Networks, 2009. GameNets '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Istanbul
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4176-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-4177-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137436
Filename
5137436
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