The purpose of this study was to investigate deterrence factors for online file-sharing by analyzing different conditions that affect compliance with the law through survey of the students in a large university in Southern U.S.
The findings show that certainty of punishment, stigma of the label, knowledge of the laws and consensus with the rule negatively correlated with both actual and likely future file-sharing activities of the users
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LSU/oai:etd.lsu.edu:etd-01192004-014024 |
| Date | 22 January 2004 |
| Creators | Nergadze, Nico |
| Contributors | Renita Coleman, Ralph Izard, Xigen Li |
| Publisher | LSU |
| Source Sets | Louisiana State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-01192004-014024/ |
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