What do computer science students think about software piracy?

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 277-285

  Konstantakis, Nikos I ^a   Palaigeorgiou, George E ^b   Siozos, Panos D ^a   Tsoukalas, Ioannis A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computer science students; Software piracy

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; DIGITAL PRODUCTS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SOFTWARE COPYRIGHTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CRIME; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77951981744     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290902765076     Document Type: Article

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