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Software Piracy: Why Honest People Cheat IDSc Workshop May 28, 1999 Gove Allen

Software Piracy: Why Honest People Cheat IDSc Workshop May 28, 1999 Gove Allen. Social Contract Theory (Cosmides, 1989). Social exchange occurs with great regularity across cultures because humans have cognitive adaptations which govern behavior in social exchange situations. Cheating.

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Software Piracy: Why Honest People Cheat IDSc Workshop May 28, 1999 Gove Allen

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  1. Software Piracy: Why Honest People CheatIDSc WorkshopMay 28, 1999Gove Allen

  2. Social Contract Theory(Cosmides, 1989) Social exchange occurs with great regularity across cultures because humans have cognitive adaptations which govern behavior in social exchange situations.

  3. Cheating Taking a benefit without paying the associated cost

  4. Opinions of Cheating (10 point scale) • Stealing a chocolate bar from a convenience store (7.6) • Putting false information on your resume (7.3) • Taking office supplies from work (7.1) • Keeping incorrect change from a store clerk (6.6) • Copying software from work ( 6.5) • Making a copy of a rented VCR tape (5.3) • Copying software from a friend (5.2) • Going 75 km in a 60 km zone (5.1) • Taping a CD (3.8) http://www.caast.org/theft/decima

  5. Kinds of Software Piracy • End User • Reseller • Republisher • Internet Piracy / Warez

  6. Software Piracy Of the 615 million new installations of business software in 1998, 231 Million were pirate copies (38%). (Business Software Alliance annual piracy report -- May 25, 1999)

  7. Pleistocene Social Exchange Tangibles Services Individual Highly evolved mechanisms for social exchange SmallGroup Mechanisms for social exchange not as highly evolved

  8. Current Social Exchange More Abstract Tangibles Services Intangible Goods More Abstract Individual Highly evolved mechanisms for social exchange SmallGroup Mechanisms for social exchange not as highly evolved AnonymousEntities No evolved mechanisms for the control of Social Exchange

  9. Alpine Lodge Brought fire wood Brought no fire wood Did not stay the night Stayed the night

  10. Document Coding D Rating FRating Code3 Code7

  11. Drinking Age Drinkingbeer 25yearsold Drinkingonlycoke 16 yearsold

  12. Subway Rodesubwaytoday Lives insuburbs Livesincity Did notride subway

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