Installation and use of pirated software: The factors behind of it

This study is to attempt and understand the factors that influence the consumer or user on the activities of installing and using pirated software. As time goes by, the issue of selling, installing, using etc. pirated software seems no stopping zone. Not to be surprised, year-by-year, respective body reported that software house producer lost million of dollars due to this problem. Thus, various similar studies conducted to measure the situations either in the perspective of behaviors of the consumer or user and some are doing on the effects of using these pirated software. In this study, the researcher focus on the factor of Reciprocal Fairness (RF), Procedural Fairness (PF), Attitude (ATT) and Subjective Norm (SN) as dependent variables towards the Intention (INT) use of these pirated software. As results, Procedural Fairness (PF), Attitude (ATT) and Subjective Norm (SN) have significant differences towards the Intention (INT) use of pirated software.