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Digital Rights Management and Individualized Pricing
May/June 2008 (vol. 6 no. 3)
pp. 76-79
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Michael Lesk, "Digital Rights Management and Individualized Pricing," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 76-79, May/June, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MSP.2008.61,
author = {Michael Lesk},
title = {Digital Rights Management and Individualized Pricing},
journal ={IEEE Security & Privacy},
volume = {6},
number = {3},
issn = {1540-7993},
year = {2008},
pages = {76-79},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2008.61},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Digital rights management makes it easier for vendors to practice price discrimination online. Public resistance is perhaps the main reason it is not prevalent in online information sales.

1. A. Odlyzko, "Privacy, Economics and Price Discrimination on the Internet," Social Sciences Research Network, 2003, www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/docprivacy.economics.pdf .
2. W. Seltzer, "Privacy and Other Costs of Price Discrimination," http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2003 07.
3. C. Shapiro and H. Varian, Information Rules, Harvard Business School Press, 1998, p. 75.
4. P. Krugman, "What Price Fairness" The New York Times,4 Oct. 2000, p. A35.
5. G. Danezis, S. Lewis, and R. Anderson, "How Much is Location Privacy Worth?" 4th Workshop Economics of Information Security (WEIS 05), www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Paperslocation-privacy.pdf .

Index Terms:
price discrimination, economics, DRM, Digital Protection, digital rights management
Citation:
Michael Lesk, "Digital Rights Management and Individualized Pricing," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 76-79, May-June 2008, doi:10.1109/MSP.2008.61
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