Softlifting: Exploring Determinants of Attitude

Goles, Tim; Jayatilaka, Bandula; George, Beena; Parsons, Linda M.; Chambers, Valrie; Taylor, David S.; Brune, Rebecca

doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9361-0

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“…Our study also provides important insights concerning the ongoing disputes between creative industries and P2P users (30)(31)(32)(33)(34). First, opportunity to download does not in itself seem to lead to an increase in the amount of P2P exchanges.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems

Gavaldà-Miralles¹,

Choffnes

Otto

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Tens of millions of individuals around the world use decentralized content distribution systems, a fact of growing social, economic, and technological importance. These sharing systems are poorly understood because, unlike in other technosocial systems, it is difficult to gather large-scale data about user behavior. Here, we investigate user activity patterns and the socioeconomic factors that could explain the behavior. Our analysis reveals that (i) the ecosystem is heterogeneous at several levels: content types are heterogeneous, users specialize in a few content types, and countries are heterogeneous in user profiles; and (ii) there is a strong correlation between socioeconomic indicators of a country and users behavior. Our findings open a research area on the dynamics of decentralized sharing ecosystems and the socioeconomic factors affecting them, and may have implications for the design of algorithms and for policymaking.human activity | Internet | content sharing | privacy | BitTorrent E very month, ∼150 million users worldwide share files over the Internet using BitTorrent (1), the most widely used decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) communication protocol. Eleven years after its inception, file sharing through BitTorrent is one of the top three major contributors to the overall Internet traffic, accounting for 9-27% of the total traffic, depending on the continent (2, 3).The expansion in scale and breadth of decentralized filesharing has highlighted the conflicts between the interests of creators (musicians and writers, e.g.) and those of P2P users. Creators and creative industries argue that they are being deprived of fair compensation for their work (4), which is being widely distributed for free in violation of copyright laws. Users, however, argue that P2P can be (and is) used for sharing nonproprietary contents, and warn that widespread monitoring of online activity by corporations and law enforcement violates P2P users' right to privacy. Proof of the complexity of the situation includes the rejection of the AntiCounterfeiting Trade Agreement by the European Parliament and the controversy with the Stop Online Piracy Act in the United States.Despite the growing social, economic, and technological importance of BitTorrent (4), there is currently little understanding of how users behave in this complex technosocial (5, 6) ecosystem. Due to the decentralized structure of P2P ecosystems, it is very difficult to gather large-scale data about interactions and behavioral patterns of the users without their explicit consent; this is in contrast to other forms of online exchange where all of the information is stored in a central system, be it publicly accessible as in Wikipedia (7), partially accessible through a public interface as in Twitter (8, 9) or Google [through its search logs (10) or its public services (11, 12)], or restricted as in Facebook (13,14) or in email communications within organizations (15-18).Because of the difficulty to collect complete user-level data of large and representative sample...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems

Gavaldà-Miralles¹,

Choffnes

Otto

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The questions were adapted from Goles et al [13], Cronan and Al-Rafee [32], Peace, Gallette and Thong [46], and Limayem, Khalifa and Chin [47]. These were measured using a 7 point Likert scale from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.…”

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“…It is regarded as both an illegal activity [1,10] -taking an individual's property without consent or compensation is stealing -and an ethical issue [11,12] piracy may be regarded as a victimless and/or harmless act, seen as less ethically serious than the theft of physical property. This view may result in the erosion of ethics and individuals may resort to other such victimless or harmless practices [13].…”

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The Demographic Factors Affecting University Students’ Intention to Pirate Software

Spark

2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract.As the requirement to use computers increases, software piracy is increasing, yet little research has been conducted in South Africa to investigate the reasons why students pirate software. This paper reports on a study on the demographic factors affecting students' intention to pirate software. The study was carried out on students at the University of the Witwatersrand using questionnaires. It was found that gender and an individual's level of study had the most significant effect on intention to pirate, with academic discipline and level of household income having the least significant effect. Educational campaigns on the ethics and consequences of piracy are recommended.

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“…Among them are Peace, Galletta, and Thong (2003), Al-Rafee and Cronan (2006), Cronan and Al-Rafee (2008), Goles, et al (2008), Morton and Koufteros (2008), Yoon (2011), andDashti (2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Goles, et al (2008) concluded that the greater an individual perceives the benefits or usefulness of illegal duplication of copyrighted software, the more favorable his or her attitude is toward the unethical practice. Furthermore, Yoon (2011) found that perceived benefit positively affects both attitude toward digital piracy and intention to commit digital piracy.…”

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Determinants of Consumer Intention to Pirate Digital Products

Setiawan¹,

Tjiptono²

2013

IJMS

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Digital products, such as software, music, videos, books, and pictures, are vulnerable to digital piracy. The losses caused by pirated digital products have been increasing over years in Indonesia. Long histories of intellectual property rights protection are unable to suppress the piracy behavior. Several studies have been conducted to examine factors affecting consumer intention to pirate digital products. However, a systematic study on consumer intention to commit digital piracy in Indonesia is still limited. The present study aims to address the under-research issue.The current study is a modified replication of Yoon's (2011) research. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 218 students at several universities in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY), Indonesia. Ten research hypotheses were tested using multiple regression analyses. The results indicate that three of the ten hypotheses were not supported, while one hypothesis could not be examined due to its failure to pass a reliability test. Attitude towards digital piracy positively affects consumer intention to commit digital piracy, while moral obligation is a negative predictor of the dependent variable. Subjective norms and perceived behavioral control were found to have insignificant impacts on intention to pirate digital products.

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Softlifting: Exploring Determinants of Attitude

Abstract: softlifting, ethics, piracy, attitude,

Cited by 95 publications

References 39 publications

Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems

Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems

The Demographic Factors Affecting University Students’ Intention to Pirate Software

Determinants of Consumer Intention to Pirate Digital Products

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