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
Link To Document :
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