Purchasing illegal pirated software behavior among IPTA student at Kota Samarahan / Lantong Sergen

• Main Author: Sergen, Lantong
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: University Technology MARA Sarawak 2018
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); Study and teaching. Research
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100110/1/100110.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100110/

Illegal pirated software is copyright of digital media such as software, music and voice and also document that as backup without explicit permission (Higgins, 2007). Based on the report an illegal downloading of music was higher behavior among university student in the US (Lysonski & Durrasula, 2008). IIPA International Intellectual Property Alliance, (2008), there are higher number of university students that involved in internet piracy, thus call for many research to be undertaken to understand the driving forces ofthe incidence of internet piracy activities. Mastura et al. (2008) found that high incidence of use pirated software among university student in Malaysia. The research was identifying the university student behavior intention toward internet piracy in context of Malaysia. Digital piracy involves act that acquire in digital media with illegal channel without the owner permission the copyright holders (Robert G. Morris, 2009). It can take owner the internet through peer to peer offile sharing network through the traditional copying document. Suki (2011), software piracy has brought increase massive loss in the industry globally and has aroused question on behavior and related ethical issues. A study attempted found factor and determinants of software piracy behavior. Meanwhile, external factor was examined and result show factor per capita income, cultural, and institutional factor that determinants ofsoftware piracy rates.