ABSTRACT
Wolfe, & Marcum, 2008). Digital piracy is one form of intellectual property piracy that has been increasing in recent years (International Federation of Phonographic Industries [IFPI], 2008).
Gopal, Sanders, Bhattacharjee, Agrawal, and Wagner (2004) dened digital piracy as the illegal act of copying digital goods, so¯ware, digital documents, digital audio (including music and voice), and digital video for any reason other than to back up without explicit permission from and compensation to the copyright holder. ›e Internet facilitates digital piracy because it allows the crime to take place in a context that is detached from the copyright holder (Wall, 2005). For instance, the Internet provides a sense of con-dentiality and anonymity. ›is is especially true for digital music piracy that is committed through a multitude of modus operandi (e.g., compact disc [CD] burning, peer-to-peer [P2P] networks, local area network [LAN] le sharing, digital stream ripping, and mobile piracy [see https://www.ifpi.org for a discussion of these techniques]). A problem with digital piracy is that the anonymity and condentiality provides the pirate with a sense that the crime is victimless. However, music piracy is far from a victimless crime and has been described as “the greatest threat facing the music industry today” (Chiou, Huang, & Lee, 2005, p. 161).
