The illegal copying of software is commonly referred to as software piracy, which has considered as one of ethical issues on cyberspace. To this end, several measures have been tried to prevent and deter losses. One is to identify the factors that influence individuals’ piracy act. In this research, a theoretical model is developed to test the factors that would significantly affect piracy inte...

This paper reviews and discusses software piracy issues from a global perspective. It also reports the findings of a survey concerning the impact of demographic factors on software piracy among IT professionals in Turkey. Although the impact of these factors on software piracy has long been attracting the interest of academics, no quantitative research has ever been realized in this field in th...

Localized expression of the Drosophila rhomboid (rho) gene has been proposed to hyperactivate EGF-Receptor signaling in specific cells during development of the embryo and adult. In this report we use a novel transposon based genetic method, enhancer piracy, to drive ectopic expression of a rho cDNA transgene by endogenous genomic enhancers. Many enhancer piracy transposon-rho insertions cause ...

The last decade has seen the advent and growth of two strongly linked phenomena which have led to important changes in the worldwide economy. The first is the development of the digital economy, based on the digitalisation of previously existing goods and on the development of new purely digital goods. The second is the development and generalisation of consumer piracy. The link between these t...

Although researchers have examined software piracy using several correlates and theories, it is not clear whether low self-control has an effect on software piracy and if social learning theory can condition the effect that low self-control has on college students’ software piracy. Using data collected from three hundred and eighteen undergraduate college students, this study examines the effec...

Software piracy and counterfeiting is a global problem that has resulted in huge economic losses worldwide. This paper proposes a theory-based approach to study the key factors contributing to piracy and counterfeiting issues. We first developed a theoretical model linking the antecedents into the key factors using information acquired from an extended literature review. We then undertook a sur...

Piracy has long been an important concern for the software industry. The relative ease of reproducing and distributing software, as with any digital good, combined with the high value that many software products command makes software a prime target for piracy and unlicensed use. Today, an estimated every third copy of Microsoft’s widely used Windows operating system is unlicensed (Fried 2005),...

The costs of product piracy towards knowledge creation and innovation are enormous. It hampers the development of knowledge and innovation because piracy can greatly reduce the economic benefits for the original creators of products and ideas. Widespread piracy and weak intellectual property regulations and enforcement, particularly in developing countries, will undermine development and the gr...

According to the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the worldwide revenue of business-based PC applications was $21.6 billion in 1999, but global revenue losses due to piracy in the business application software market were calculated at $12 billion. These statistics drew attention not only because the losses attributed to piracy go beyond more than 50% of revenues, but also ...