Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia

This study investigates the personal and social factors influencing "illegal" downloading of movies from the Internet. The data analysis of 203 usable responses indicated three antecedents ("habits", "affect" and "facilitating conditions") have significant rel...

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Main Author: Liang, Johan
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Marketing, Curtin Business School 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14530
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description This study investigates the personal and social factors influencing "illegal" downloading of movies from the Internet. The data analysis of 203 usable responses indicated three antecedents ("habits", "affect" and "facilitating conditions") have significant relationships with "attitude towards illegally downloading movies". Conversely, "moral judgement", "self efficacy" and "social factors" do not have significant influence towards "attitude towards illegally downloading movies". Additionally, internet usage, internet time spent and internet speed do not have significant influence to respondents' attitude towards illegally downloading movies to change the respondents' intention to download movie illegally in the future. Self-control theory, neutralization theory and theory of planned behaviour are used to explain some of the results. Findings derived from this study can provide useful practical implications for marketers, policy makers and internet gatekeeper to have a better understanding of down-loaders' behaviour and developed better anti-piracy measurements to reduce piracy rate in Australia. The major limitation in this study is the use of a convenience sample from a large university. Further research is needed with a random sample of down-loaders.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-145302017-01-30T11:44:19Z Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia Liang, Johan social factor Digital piracy intention to download personal factor movie downloading This study investigates the personal and social factors influencing "illegal" downloading of movies from the Internet. The data analysis of 203 usable responses indicated three antecedents ("habits", "affect" and "facilitating conditions") have significant relationships with "attitude towards illegally downloading movies". Conversely, "moral judgement", "self efficacy" and "social factors" do not have significant influence towards "attitude towards illegally downloading movies". Additionally, internet usage, internet time spent and internet speed do not have significant influence to respondents' attitude towards illegally downloading movies to change the respondents' intention to download movie illegally in the future. Self-control theory, neutralization theory and theory of planned behaviour are used to explain some of the results. Findings derived from this study can provide useful practical implications for marketers, policy makers and internet gatekeeper to have a better understanding of down-loaders' behaviour and developed better anti-piracy measurements to reduce piracy rate in Australia. The major limitation in this study is the use of a convenience sample from a large university. Further research is needed with a random sample of down-loaders. 2010 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14530 School of Marketing, Curtin Business School fulltext
spellingShingle social factor
Digital piracy
intention to download
personal factor
movie
downloading
Liang, Johan
Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia
title Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia
title_full Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia
title_fullStr Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia
title_full_unstemmed Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia
title_short Study on digital piracy of movies in Western Australia
title_sort study on digital piracy of movies in western australia
topic social factor
Digital piracy
intention to download
personal factor
movie
downloading
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14530