Ethical Decision Making in a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Situation: The Role of Moral Absolutes and Social Consensus

Individuals are downloading copyrighted materials at escalating rates (Hill 2007; Siwek 2007). 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 al....

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Authors: Bateman, Connie R. (Author) ; Valentine, Sean (Author) ; Rittenburg, Terri (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2013
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 115, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-240
Further subjects:B social consensus
B Ethical issue recognition
B ethical intention
B moral absolutes
B P2P
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