Digital movie piracy: A perspective on downloading behavior through social cognitive theory

One Sail Fits All? A Psychographic Segmentation of Digital Pirates

“…In the context at hand, one's intention to pirate could also be influenced by the formation of repeated, habitual behavior within the notion of deficient self-regulation (i.e., the extent to which a behavior is outside an individual's conscious control). Both LaRose and Kim (2007) and Jacobs et al (2012) observed a positive relationship between deficient self-regulation (which includes items relating to the degree to which habitual patterns exist) and pirating intentions and behavior.…”

“…Similarly, Freestone and Mitchell (2004) observed that Generation Y consumers seemed more accepting of digital piracy, precisely because of their belief that they were not inflicting direct harm on sellers; they also claimed to be themselves victims of prices that were maintained at an artificially high level. Regardless, the premise that downloaders consider piracy a harmless activity is well established in the literature (Levin et al 2004(Levin et al , 2007Jambon and Smetana 2012;Lysonski and Durvasula 2008;Hinduja and Higgins 2011;Nunes et al 2004;Chaudhry et al 2011;Jacobs et al 2012). Perceived harm is not included as a segmentation variable because of the possible confounding relationships between perceived harm and ethical evaluation (Fullerton et al 1996) and between perceived harm and attitude (Freestone and Mitchell 2004).…”

“…A Psychographic Segmentation of Digital Pirates transgression (Coyle et al 2009;Bonner and O'Higgins 2010;Robert 2004;Hinduja and Higgins 2011;Moores and Chang 2006;Shang et al 2007;Jacobs et al 2012) and consider it more acceptable than other aberrant behavior (Freestone and Mitchell 2004). Other pirates find themselves in an ambiguous position, while recognizing that it is not acceptable they would still recommend it to others (Altschuller and Benbunan-Fich 2009).…”

A consumer perspective on moving images: The design and adoption of public audiovisual heritage services in the Netherlands

“…In the recent years, the social-cognitive approach is adopted and tested against the Internet in a European context (Peters et al, 2006), mobile technology (Peters, 2007), music downloading (LaRose & Kim, 2007), video game usage, (Lee & LaRose, 2007) ambient technology (Ben Allouch, 2008) and digital movie piracy (Jacobs et al, 2012). …”

An Exploration of Essential Factors That Influence Music Streaming Adoption and the Intention to Engage in Digital Piracy

“…Several studies have addressed digital piracy using social cognitive theory 42,45 . Others have relied on the theory of reasoned action and planned behavior and showed that all three core components of the modelattitudes, perceived behavioral control, and social norms -are relevant and provide a basis to explore a wide range of specific motivating factors related to digital piracy 10,32,46,47,48,49,50 .…”