Software Piracy Attitudes of Tertiary Students in Australia
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Software piracy has been a widespread problem in tertiary institutions and business environment for years. This paper reports a factor analysis to explore some of the issues perceived by tertiary students. The study also attempts to determine the relationship between attitude to software piracy and age, gender, computer ownership, study area of concentration, and history of software copying to attitude.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998