Why do mainstream consumers who would not typically engage in illegal behaviour
routinely resort to online piracy of copyrighted software? This paper provides answers to this …

Since the late 1990s, internet piracy has posed a serious threat to intellectual property.
Despite widespread prevention efforts, internet piracy remains a costly and sometimes …

Contrary to a popular belief of lawyers having the most strict perception of law, law
professionals actually strongly skew toward more favorable views of digital sharing …

Self-tracking (ST) technologies offer an unlimited number of opportunities to improve human
life, especially health and well-being. Many scholars have been interested in this technology …

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual
Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when …

This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional
distributions of software piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries over the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine global trajectories, dynamics, and
tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of current efforts toward …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of
PC users, conditional on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) institutions. The empirical …

ABSTRACT Members of the Pirate Parties International have claimed that torrent networks
have the potential to function as repositories for popular cultural materials and historical …

This study explores why Chinese consumers use pirated software programs and how they
think about their illegal use, relying on Q methodology. We developed 32 Q statements that …