Ethical Decision Making in Software Piracy: Initial Development and Test of a Four-Component Model

Moores, Trevor T.; Chang, Jerry Cha-Jan

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“…Based on the data gathered from surveys of 226 distance computing students, Van Der Merwe (2006) found that younger distance computing students softlift more than older distance comput-ing students. Moores and Chang (2006) studied 243 students and found significant differences in the ethical decision making in software piracy process based on age. Results of a study conducted by Peslak (2007) showed that older individuals more readily follow ethical norms regarding copying others' software.…”

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“…Even though the majority of the studies found that male students are more likely to pirate software than female students, some studies didn't find the same result. For example, Moores and Chang (2006) found that male and female students interpret the act of software piracy similarly. Van der Byl and Van Belle (2008) didn't find statistically significant relationship between gender and digital piracy.…”

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Demographic Factors Affecting Freshman Students' Attitudes towards Software Piracy: An Empirical Study

Acılar¹

2010

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The widespread use of computers and the Internet has provided many advantages to everyday life, but also created new opportunities for unethical and illegal acts such as software piracy. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that worldwide software piracy rate went up to 41 percent in 2008 and worldwide losses to software vendors due to software piracy totaled more than $50 billion in 2008 (BSA andIDC, 2009). Besides being an economic problem, software piracy is also an ethical issue, especially in academic settings. The evidences from numerous studies suggest that many undergraduate students consider software piracy and other unethical use of information technologies as an acceptable behavior.The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships between the demographic characteristics of freshman students and their attitudes towards software piracy. Data were obtained from a survey sample of 125 students in the Department of Business Administration at a public university in Turkey. The study found that overall attitudes of freshman students towards software piracy are close to neutral position on the Likert scale. The results of the regression analysis showed that monthly family income and duration of Internet usage in a week affected attitudes of freshman students towards software piracy, but to a lower extent.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Demographic Factors Affecting Freshman Students' Attitudes towards Software Piracy: An Empirical Study

Acılar¹

2010

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“…Many of the factors identified in their work have been included in follow-up research to suggest strategies to enhance customer retention by addressing intentions to use legal software [57,79,101]. These strategies include pricing, communication, and legal actions, among others, to mitigate piracy [30,77]. We experimentally test advice as an educational strategy in our paper, moving beyond conjecture in the prior literature.…”

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Digital Piracy, Teens, and the Source of Advice: An Experimental Study

Hashim

Kannan²,

Maximiano³

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Journal of Management Information Systems

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The objective of our paper is to determine the effect of piracy advice from various sources on music consumer behavior. Specifically, does it matter if the source of advice has a stake in the outcome of the piracy decision? Does it matter if the source of advice has a social tie with the advisee? Accordingly, we conduct a lab experiment using teenagers and their parents as subjects, increasing the realism of the context by sampling potential pirates and their parents. Treatments represent various sources of piracy advice (e.g., the teen's parent, a record label, or an external regulator). Subjects make decisions playing our new experimental game -The Piracy Game -extended from the volunteer's dilemma literature. Interestingly, subjects respond negatively to advice from record labels over time, purchasing fewer songs as compared to other sources such as the subject's parent. The existence of a social tie between the advisor and the subject assists in mitigating piracy, especially when a parent is facing potential penalties due to his/her child's behavior. An external regulator, having no social tie or stake in the decision, provides the least credible source of advice, leading to the greatest amount of piracy. Our analyses not only provide managerial insights but also develop theoretical understanding of the role of social ties in the context of advice.

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“…In the text, works are cited as follows: author's last name and year, without comma, in parentheses. For example: one author, (Parenty 2007); two authors, (Moores and Chang 2006); three or more authors, (Kulatilaka et al 1999); more than one work cited, (Parenty 2007;Moores and Chang 2006); with two works by the same author(s), (Baiman andRajan 2002a, 2002b). 2.…”

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Ethical Decision Making in Software Piracy: Initial Development and Test of a Four-Component Model

Cited by 233 publications

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Demographic Factors Affecting Freshman Students' Attitudes towards Software Piracy: An Empirical Study

Demographic Factors Affecting Freshman Students' Attitudes towards Software Piracy: An Empirical Study

Digital Piracy, Teens, and the Source of Advice: An Experimental Study

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