PENGARUH INTENSITAS MORAL TERHADAP PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN ETIS DALAM PENGGUNAAN PERANGKAT LUNAK BAJAKAN

Abstract

Piracy of information technology (IT) sotfware has been particularly detrimental to the software
industry billions of dollars per year. According to data from the Business Software Alliance (BSA)
which has conducted studies around the world, during 2010 the last level of use of pirated
business software applications reached 42 percent worldwide (BSA 2010). If converted into cash,
the total losses reach 59 billion dollars, an increase of 14% compared to 2009. And the BSA
believes one reason piracy is so widespread is that many users of pirated software do not really
understand that they act unethically. This paper investigates critical issues on ethical behavior,
specifically the effects of moral intensity with ethical decision making in software piracy. In this
study, data were collected using a questionnaire based on two scenarios contain about ethical
issues in the use of software. Both scenarios related to software (1) users with a software license
on multiple computers (1) hijacked on licenses that have not been paid. 340 samples of students in
AMIK BSI, the 195 students in the class of Information Management, 100 students in the class of
Computer Engineering, and 45 student workers and professional software users already know the
ethics of the use of information technology. Regression analysis with SPSS program used to test
the hypothesis. This study shows that the moral intensity of individuals influence behavior
intentions in a situation-specific negatively associated with the ethical use of software for all
scenarios.
Keywords: Ethical, Decision Making, Software Piracy