PIRATE MEDIA AND SOFTWARE

How pirate media and software affects the economy



Abstract

This paper reconsiders and talks about software piracy issues from a international perspective. It furthermore accounts the outcome of a review in relative to the influence of demographic components on software piracy among IT professionals in Turkey. Although the influence of these components on software piracy has long been appealing the concern of academics, no quantitative study has ever been recognized in this area in the country. Elsewhere furthermore, most of the software piracy -related investigations are restricted to scholars and academics and very couple of have described outcome associated to IT professionals in distinct organizations. The review was undertook amidst IT professionals from government and personal part organizations. Based on this review, the outcomes demonstrated that gender, age and know-how have important influence on software piracy. The significances of these outcome are considered and in evaluation with other associated studies.

Table of Contents

Chapter # 1: Introduction5

Aims and Objective5

Overview of setting5

Background to the problem7

Outline methodology to be used8

Research equipment and the data8

Software/existing products review11

Chapter # 2: Design, Development & Evaluation13

Conceptualising new newspapers activities13

Weightless finances13

Software piracy16

Worldwide piracy scenario and Turkey18

Hypotheses20

Personal mind-set in the direction of software piracy20

Virtual goods and services: the viral company21

The new newspapers tribe and the 'bulimic career'23

Network building24

Technical facets of programs piracy25

Effect of the Internet26

Results26

Descriptive results26

Test results29

Personal mind-set in the direction of programs piracy31

Technical facets of programs piracy31

Results for result of the Internet32

Chapter # 3: Conclusion32

Discussions32

Gender32

Age34

Income34

Education35

Experience35

Conclusions36

References38

Chapter # 1: Introduction

The expansion of computers in today's humanity has generated new ethical dilemmas for the software industry (Simpson, Banerjee, & Simpson, 2004), which uses over 2 million persons and develops over $140 billion in yearly incomes (BSA, 2009). Software piracy has become a major distress over the past two decades (Peace, Galletta, & Thong, 2003; Tang & Farn, 2004). It usually mentions to the illicit use of software by companies, enterprises and persons for individual use (Athey, Susan, & Plotnicki, 2004). Software piracy encompasses unauthorized making a duplicate of software by the end users, illicit setting up of software on computer hard computer disks, counterfeit, breaks in a channel of sales, Internet piracy and the perform of stacking some appliances with software permitted for use on one appliance only (Belousov, 2004; Prasad & Mahajan (2003) A. Prasad and V. Mahajan, How numerous pirates should a software firm tolerate? (An investigation of piracy defence on the diffusion of software International Journal of Research in Marketing 20 (2003), pp. 337-353).

Aims and Objective

Today, the living publications on software piracy mostly comprises of conceptual considerations, descriptive reviews, analytical modelling and most of the empirical publications values demographic facts and numbers to interpret why piracy occurs.

 Overview of setting

In a latest study, Jaeger (2003) described that, in general, demographic components have significant influence on individuals' mind-set in the direction of the use of IT. Rahim, Rahaman, and Seyal (2000) and Seale, Polakowski, and Schneider (2008) furthermore studied the connection between demographic components and piracy. They both resolved that gender and know-how have a direct result on self-reported ...