the opportunist people likely to do the piracy behavior. Moreover, by getting supports from relatives or important others, people also feel that their act was not illegal. It is
one of many reasons why people tend to do piracy; although they knew that piracy is a bad thing; when other people also do it as free as they want without feeling guilty,
people feel that they have ‘friends’ who also did the same just like them. Since there is no clear law or punishment regarding to this issue, people will keep pirating.
5.3 Research Limitation
Efforts were made in the present study with the expectation to be a good research. However, the current study is quite imperfect regarding to some limitations
that cannot to be avoided. The research limitations are explained as follows: The present study was dominated by undergraduate students where the age
distinction was only in small range; usually between 18 to 24 years old. It could be better if there are more high school students and post-graduate students engaged to
this research, so that the age range will be wider and makes a different result. Although this study involved a reasonably large sample, a total of 223
respondents could not represent all students in DIY. Even if students were an ideal subject for this research, more diversification could make a better result. However, a
larger sample and sample from nonstudent might be more appropriate due to the generalizability of the research results.
Since the present study used convenience sampling for the questionnaire administration method, some problems may occur. This study has a quite many
questions that should be answered by the respondents. Respondent were asked first for their willingness to participate the research or not, for reasons that the
questionnaire is kind of time consuming 20-30 minutes to finish all questions. Besides many rejections from people who were offered, some participants who
already participated did not notice that the questions were quite many. Then, those people who have limit time tend to fill the questionnaires arbitrarily. Therefore, from
261 returned questionnaires, thirty eight questionnaires were discarded because one
or more questions left unanswered andor too many neutral answers.
The proportion of gender was imbalance, where from 223 participants, female were dominated by 147, while male only 76. It would be better if each gender was
moderately the same amount of number. However, this is also not really guaranteed that the result will be different because comparing to the previous research by Al-
Rafee and Cronan 2006, although they had a good proportion of gender, but the result was also the same where the hypothesis that saying if female has a lower
attitude toward digital piracy than male was also shown as an insignificant variable. The respondents’ bias answer also influences the research result. Some people
tend to cover the answer by giving opinion based on their common thought; which right and wrong, instead of giving their real self-report. This is kind of human being
where someone does not want to be a bad person in other people’s perspective. Using more scenarios or the third person role would be a better choice to arrange the
questionnaire’s questions.
5.4 Suggestions
