Title :
Tracking and mitigating piracy
Author :
Lou, Mingji ; Jonckheere, Edmond A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Southern California Univ.
Abstract :
The DVD piracy problem is analyzed as a benchmark case study of propagation of potentially sensitive information through the small-world social network and the scale-free Internet. The fundamental mathematical concept is that of a hybrid network, that is, two graphs, one with positive curvature the other with negative curvature, connected with an exchange mechanism. It is shown that this propagation model on a hybrid network matches real traces of DVD piracy. Some anti-piracy measures based on control concepts are suggested
Keywords :
computer crime; graph theory; DVD piracy problem; antipiracy measures; piracy mitigation; piracy tracking; propagation model; scale-free Internet; small-world social network; DVD; Electrical equipment industry; Helium; IP networks; Information analysis; Internet; Motion pictures; Peer to peer computing; Social network services; US Government;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2006
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0209-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0209-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2006.1655431
