期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2010
卷号：7
页码：329-329
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：The widespread use of computers and the Internet has provided many advantages to everyday
life, but also created new opportunities for unethical and illegal acts such as software piracy. The
Business Software Alliance (BSA) and International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that
worldwide software piracy rate went up to 41 percent in 2008 and worldwide losses to software
vendors due to software piracy totaled more than $50 billion in 2008 (BSA and IDC, 2009). Besides
being an economic problem, software piracy is also an ethical issue, especially in academic
settings. The evidences from numerous studies suggest that many undergraduate students consider
software piracy and other unethical use of information technologies as an acceptable behavior.
The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships between the demographic
characteristics of freshman students and their attitudes towards software piracy. Data were obtained
from a survey sample of 125 students in the Department of Business Administration at a
public university in Turkey. The study found that overall attitudes of freshman students towards
software piracy are close to neutral position on the Likert scale. The results of the regression
analysis showed that monthly family income and duration of Internet usage in a week affected
attitudes of freshman students towards software piracy, but to a lower extent.
关键词：software piracy, softlifting, demographic factors, freshman students
