Youth behaviour about digital piracy: Research with public high school students

• Autor(a) principal: Grohmann, Márcia Zampieri
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Rosa, Ana Claudia da Rosa, Nunes, Jankel Dal’osto Nunes, Piveta, Maíra Nunes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/ei.v0i9.5899

This paper aims to identify the profile of younger who download more software pirates; understand young people's behavior in relation to digital piracy; verify if this profile impact in young justice perception and attitude toward digital piracy . The research is characterized by quantitative and descriptive, using Suki, Suki and Ramayah (2011) model in a 397 student sample. The results showed that: the using of software pirates is more high among men and who made less use of software pirates are young people with higher incomes; the younger are less influenced by others to make use of digital piracy and demonstrate a small intention to use it; and it was found that the respondents’ profile has a moderate effect on the behavior about piracy (34.67% variable) and, among the those, the variables that most cause impact are: gender (100 %), habit (40 %), income (20 %) and knowledge (13.33 %).