ISP and CP revenue sharing and content piracy

Abstract

With the network neutrality debate, the revenue sharing between Internet service providers(ISPs) and content providers(CPs) has been received attentions. In this paper, we study the revenue sharing of them from the perspective of collaboration to reduce online content piracy. With higher efforts of ISPs to reduce illegal content traffics,CPs have higher incentives to share their revenue with ISPs. We study the possibilities of such collaboration with a game theoretic model. Our preliminary results seem promising as both ISPs and CPs can be benefited from the cooperation.