• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.131-152
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• 2013

Many studies have reported that software piracy is prevalent in today's society. As software is more closely integrated with across industries, software piracy would put more burdens on national economy. In spite of software anti-piracy efforts, the phenomenon has been getting worse. It is necessary to change the focus of current deterrence strategies. For better understanding of unethical behavioral intention, a research model of potential determinants for the software piracy is developed and empirically tested. The results from the study show that the planned behavior model variables-attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control-have impact on intention to commit software piracy. In addition to the variables, past behavior, perceived benefits and risk were found to be significant predictors of attitude toward software piracy. However, neither attitude nor intention was influenced by facilitating conditions. Moreover, the effect of past piracy behavior on attitude was strongly mediated by perceived benefits. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.127-140
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• 2009

Recently, software piracy is one of the serious crimes for the digital materials. It makes economically devasting to the software industry and the market. In particular, it is a widespread phenomenon among university students in Korea and negative affects in measuring social and cultural level. Many studies have been focused on the users' intention of the software piracy for making anti-piracy policy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting university students' software piracy intention. The survey includes responses from 271 university students in a school of business adminstration. The research model was estimated with multiple regression. The analysis showed results that user's characteristics, subjective norms, and perceived software quality were significantly related to intention of software piracy, but security policy was not. Perceived importance of intellectual property has negative impact on user's software piracy intention. Based on the findings, we suggest the implications for developing and implementing appropriate policies for anti-piracy.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.2
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• pp.423-434
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• 2004

This paper presents the software system that protects illegal installation and use of the commercial software. The server computer in this system stores the compressed versions for all software, while client computers install all software by downloading them from the server. Also the client computers periodically report to the server whether they have illegally installed software. This system introduces authentication and encryption/decryption using the session key under Windows Operating System to prevent interception of the software package from outside world and malicious modification of the transfer message between the server and the client. The proposed system in this Paper has several advantages such as providing real-time control of license and easy maintenance of the software as well as protecting illegal use of the software.