The paper examines the effects of five major socialization agents—namely parents, peers, traditional media, the Internet, and music industry—on emerging adults' attitudes and behavior toward music piracy in the form of unauthorized downloading.
In essence, consumers have to worry about cyber hackers, the Heartbleed bug and the social media platforms of the world, and now add to that list dark pool of unknown companies, which have become the new threat vector to digital profiling, personal data piracy and mining of personal behavior and privacy.
If you watch HBO or use Netflix by using a friend's password, thus managing to avoid paying for the service yourself, is that acceptable digital-native behavior or is it piracy?
Studios have argued that the long gap between theatrical and home video release can cause an increase in piracy and is out of step with changing consumer behavior.
Terrorism is an ancient tactic, and the criminal behavior of organized nonstate actors is precisely the problem posed by piracy.
Based upon self-reported behavior, our study shows that these socialization agents exert differential effects on music piracy.
Stephen Platt's forthcoming book, "Criminal Capital," details the wide variety of ways in which banks' willingness to turn a blind eye to dubious behavior has been instrumental over the years in facilitating drug smuggling, tax evasion, piracy, and terrorism.
Robert Ellis Smith, editor of Privacy Journal, a monthly newsletter that explores contemporary threats to privacy, said the anti-piracy technologies are just one element in a wave of efforts to track consumers' behavior on the Web.
Study participants were asked about eight kinds of bad behavior including littering, skipping school or work, using illegal drugs, fare dodging, shoplifting, music piracy, property damage and violence against the person.
Piracy is a threat to our entire industry and as filmmakers we will not tolerate such illegal and despicable behavior".
