Utilizing Piracy As A Strategic Partner For Competitive Advantage

Abstract - After decades of continuous technological evolutions and advancement in all facet of life we stand at the cross road between maximizing the use of intellectual knowledge talents and skill to bring about economic and innovative variations to business or ignore the many opportunities that exist from piracy within the global market. This paper will take a close approach as to how business can utilize the pirate community as a strategic partner for competitive advantage and bring profit to business creation of legitimate ideas piracy as a source for technological and strategic innovation to both existing and new industries. This paper will also examine how piracy can enhance business performance of organization that owns IP and how pirate help to create value to IP holders and the drive for legal version of the pirated products.