TOWARD A PROFILE OF STUDENT SOFTWARE PIRATERS

Efforts to counter software piracy are an increasing focus of software publishers. This study attempts to develop a profile of those who ill egally copy software by looking at undergraduate and graduate students and the extent to which they pirate software. The data indicate facto rs that can be used to profile the software pirater. In particular, ma les were found to pirate software more frequently than females and old er students more than younger students, based on self-reporting.