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Reference
Title: | Software Piracy among Accounting Students: A Longitudinal Comparison of Changes and Sensitivity |
Author: | Darryl J Woolley [University of Colorado at Denver] and Martha M Eining [University of Utah] |
Source: | Journal of Information Systems 20, no. 1: 49-63 |
Year: | 2006 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Piracy |
Focus: | Software |
Country/Territory: | United States of America |
Objective: | To investigate whether there has been a change of attitude and behaviour toward software piracy among accounting students. |
Sample: | 481 accounting students from the same university and with the same demographic characteristics as used in a 1991 study that the results were compared to |
Methodology: | 2 separate questionnaires administered during class time |
Main Findings
Found that while accounting students' understanding and knowledge of copyright laws have increased, this has not influenced overall software piracy rates. However, found lesser incidence of piracy among computer owners. Also found that respondents felt no need to conceal software piracy behaviour, and did not believe that copyright laws were strongly enforced. Students' attitudes were more influenced by their peers than by the university administration, professors, or industry advertisements.
[Date Added: Aug 12, 2008 ]