Nature or nurture? A meta-analysis of the factors that maximize the prediction of digital piracy by using social cognitive theory as a framework

Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Zhang, Jun; Wu, Tailai

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“…A metaanalysis by investigates morality effects on the acquisition of both counterfeit and pirated products, but does not provide information about the relative effects of different drivers of digital piracy. The meta-analysis by Lowry et al (2017) investigates major antecedents of digital piracy and evaluates the contribution of various theoretical explanations by comparing the corresponding drivers' effect size. While the meta-analysis is quite comprehensive, it does not cover all relevant drivers (e.g., user psychographics), nor integrate and test the theoretical perspectives or address the question of cross-cultural variability of digital piracy drivers.…”

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Explaining Digital Piracy: A Meta-Analysis

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Information Systems Research

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Please scroll down for article-it is on subsequent pagesWith 12,500 members from nearly 90 countries, INFORMS is the largest international association of operations research (O.R.) and analytics professionals and students. INFORMS provides unique networking and learning opportunities for individual professionals, and organizations of all types and sizes, to better understand and use O.R. and analytics tools and methods to transform strategic visions and achieve better outcomes. For more information on INFORMS, its publications, membership, or meetings visit http://www.informs.org INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCHAbstract. Many studies have investigated why users engage in digital piracy. The theoretical explanations are particularistic, and the empirical findings are fragmented, sometimes divergent, and reveal unexplained variations of effects. Managers and academics have thus had little guidance on how to explain and combat digital piracy. To help fill this gap, the present meta-analysis synthesizes past research on digital piracy and accumulates 1,373 effect sizes from 174 studies collected in 36 countries. The meta-analysis identifies the key drivers of users' engagement in digital piracy and tests a new, comprehensive model that integrates all prior theoretical perspectives-social influence and control, outcome evaluation, dilemma solving, and reinforcement. The model explains 42%-53% of the variance in digital piracy attitudes, intentions, and behaviors and identifies the reinforcement perspective as the strongest theory. A moderator analysis shows that the influence of key drivers varies with cultural dimensions linked to the theoretical perspectives-individualism moderates social influence and control variables, masculinity moderates dilemma-solving variables, and uncertainty avoidance moderates reinforcement variables. These findings provide guidance for future digital piracy research and also have managerial implications in terms of possible revisions to antipiracy measures.

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“…Lowry et al provide a recent meta analysis and found that four sets of factors maximize the prediction of digital piracy and includes outcome expectancies, social learning, self-efficacy and self regulation, and moral disengagement [69]. But digital piracy can also be influenced by technology considerations such as the quality of infrastructure and access to computers.…”

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The Access Model for Music and the Effect of Modification, Trial, and Sharing Usage Rights on Streaming Adoption and Piracy

Hampton-Sosa

2019

J. theor. appl. electron. commer. res.

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The access economy business model has been applied to a wide range of digital goods and services such as software, movies, music, and books. The digital platforms that manage transactions between buyers and sellers enable product rights owners to define product usage rights with a great deal of precision. In this paper, music product usage rights for digital consumption and platform attributes of music streaming systems are discussed and a model for digital music streaming system adoption and digital piracy is presented. The results of a quasi-experiment suggest that the perceived freedom to tryout, modify, and share digital music products contribute to both perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment of a product format and the music streaming system. In turn, perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment lead to the intention to adopt a music streaming system. The perceived usefulness of a music streaming system is associated with a reduction of pirating intention.

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“…The general-level reasoned action framework from social psychology (i.e., Theory of Reasoned Action, TRA, Theory of Planned Behavior, TPB, and their further developments) [10][11][12] has become the most common theoretical approach to individual-level consumer piracy questions within many disciplines. This is also evident from Lowry, Zhang and Wu's meta-analysis of empirical piracy studies [13]. However, in their basic form, TRA and TPB neglect the normative and moral aspects which are crucial to Proceedings of the 51 st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | 2018 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50338 ISBN: 978-0-9981331-1-9 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) this context, and have been consequently extended with constructs such as moral obligation [14], or with broader ethics theories [15].…”

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Piracy versus Netflix: Subscription Video on Demand Dissatisfaction as an Antecedent of Piracy

Riekkinen¹

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Drawing from cognitive dissonance and neutralization theories, this study seeks to improve the understanding on consumer decision-making between the current legal and illegal video consumption alternatives. We develop and test a research model featuring Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) satisfaction and various dimensions of SVOD quality as antecedents of video piracy neutralizations and attitudes. Based on results from an online survey among Finnish SVOD users, SVOD satisfaction is primarily determined by content quality, and has a small negative effect on attitude toward piracy through decreased piracy neutralization. However, it appears that current legal services are not seen as true alternatives to illegal sources of video content.

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Nature or nurture? A meta-analysis of the factors that maximize the prediction of digital piracy by using social cognitive theory as a framework

Cited by 113 publications

References 172 publications

Explaining Digital Piracy: A Meta-Analysis

Explaining Digital Piracy: A Meta-Analysis

The Access Model for Music and the Effect of Modification, Trial, and Sharing Usage Rights on Streaming Adoption and Piracy

Piracy versus Netflix: Subscription Video on Demand Dissatisfaction as an Antecedent of Piracy

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