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Abstract
Software piracy is a significant issue for managers of organisations, especially in developing countries. There are several factors which contribute to software piracy, and which are investigated in this study. This study consists of a literature review, and reports on empirical research, which was conducted using a survey instrument to determine if software piracy is prevalent in South Africa. The findings confirm the results of previous studies. The conclusion is made that software piracy will always exist and that stricter measures are needed to prevent its occurrence.
Highlights
Software piracy is known as the victimless crime, where, according to the software pirate, no one really gets hurt
Illegal software copying is common to all age groups, but younger age groups make more use of software piracy than older age groups
The second part of the questionnaire focused on the reasons for using pirated software, the tasks performed using pirated software and participants’ consumer behaviour. It focused on their knowledge of software piracy, e.g. whether they could spot the difference between original software and illegal software, whether they were aware that their computers might have illegal software loaded onto them and focussing on the easiest ways to obtain illegal software
Summary
Software piracy is known as the victimless crime, where, according to the software pirate, no one really gets hurt. Illegal software copying is common to all age groups, but younger age groups make more use of software piracy than older age groups. It was decided to remove the age group, “35 years and older”, from the analysis, since 5 per cent of the population sample represents only one person and inclusion of this 5 per cent might give a misleading view that people over 35 years are all illegal users (Table 2). There is a strong positive correlation of 0.65 between male and female users, meaning that if the one increases, the other will do so The p-value was calculated by Excel as being more than 70 per cent which indicates that the true effect is positive and that there is a strong possibility that an illegal user of pirated software would be male
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