Software Piracy Awareness, Policy, and User Perspective in Educational Institutions

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Questionnaire.

Question no.	Question description	Option (A)	Option (B)	Option (C)
Demographic information
1	Age	10–25	25–35	>35
2	Gender	Male	Female
3	Profession	Student	Faculty	Other
Existing software piracy
4	Which type of software do you use?	Pirated	Licensed
5	How many of your friends use licensed software?	All of them	Few of them	None
6	How you activate the software?	Online payment	Buying CD/DVD	Cracking it
7	Have you any facility for online payment for software?	Yes	No
8	What are your selection criteria for choosing software?	Lower cost	Rich number of features
9	How much pirated software do you use?	1–3	4–6	>6
Awareness of software piracy
10	How much software piracy is an important issue?	Unimportant	Somehow	Very important
11	Do you think using pirated software has any disadvantages?	Yes	No
12	Do you know about penalties for software piracy?	Yes	No
13	Is piracy against ethics?	Yes	No	Do not know
14	Do you feel any functionality difference between pirated software and the original one?	No difference	Much difference	Do not know
15	Have you ever attended any seminar/workshop on software piracy?	Yes	No
16	While using pirated software, the probability you will be caught is	Low	Medium	High
17	Majority of people use pirated software?	Agree	Disagree
18	Do you feel ashamed/guilty while using pirated software?	Yes	No	Somehow
19	Sharing pirated software with others is a good act?	Yes	No
20	Intellectual property law is beneficial for the customer	Agree	Disagree
21	Do you know all the side effects of software piracy?	Yes	No	Somehow
HEC software policy
22	Do you know about HEC software providing facilities?	Yes	No
23	Is your academic institution providing any free software?	Yes	No
24	Is any licensed software purchased by your institution for you?	Yes	No
25	Are you in favor of organizing seminars/workshops on software piracy?	Yes	No
Piracy (user perspective)
26	People use pirated software because of?	Lack of awareness	High software cost	Other (please mention)
27	The ratio of software piracy can be reduced by	Increasing awareness	Decreasing software license prices	Easy payment
28	Software piracy saves a significant amount of our money?	Agree	Disagree
29	Prices of the paid software are	Expensive	Normal	Cheap
30	The economic factor is an incentive for me to purchase pirated software	Agree	Disagree
31	Do you have any facility for buying online software and products?	Yes	No
32	Are you in favor of giving a violation of software piracy?	Yes	No
33	How often you receive warnings about fake software registrations?	Very often	Few time	Never received
34	What is your feeling when you got a notification about pirated software	Normal
35	Is it easy for you to find activation codes/cracks for software on the Internet?	Yes	No
36	What is the easiest way to register your software?	From the Internet	From friends	Any other source
37	While using pirated software, the probability you will be caught is	Low	Medium	High
38	Employees & students need the implementation of S/W policy in an academic institution	Agree	Disagree