Bateman, Connie; Valentine, Sean; Rittenburg, Terri - In: Journal of Business Ethics 115 (2013) 2, pp. 229-240
Individuals are downloading copyrighted materials at escalating rates (Hill <CitationRef CitationID="CR34">2007</CitationRef>; Siwek <CitationRef CitationID="CR69">2007</CitationRef>). Since most materials shared within these networks are copyrighted works, providing, exchanging, or downloading files is considered to be piracy and a violation of intellectual property rights (Shang et...</citationref></citationref>