ABSTRACT
As the Internet has grown, so have the opportunities to carry out diŠerent forms of criminal behavior. One such form is digital piracy. Digital piracy is dened as the illegal copying of digital goods, so¯ware, digital documents, and digital audio (including music and voice) for any reason other than to back up without the explicit permission from and compensation to the copyright holder (Gopal, Sanders, Bahattacharjee, Agrawal, & Wagner, 2004). Digital piracy has been illegal since the 1974 Copyright Act that was expanded in the No Electronic ›e¯ Act (Koen & Im, 1997). From these laws emerged several court cases related to pirating so¯ware, music, and movies from the Internet (Motivans, 2004).
