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<journal-id>1870-0578</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Mexican law review]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Mex. law rev]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1870-0578</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1870-05782026000100004</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iij.24485306e.2026.2.20383</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Between Legality and Legitimacy: Behavioral Insights into Digital Piracy and Regulatory Disobedience]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Entre la legalidad y la legitimidad: perspectivas conductuales sobre la piratería digital y la desobediencia regulatoria]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ramos]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fernando]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Privada del Norte  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Peru</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>18</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-05782026000100004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-05782026000100004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-05782026000100004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract In the past few decades, the exponential growth of digital goods has overwhelmingly reshaped the landscape of cultural production, access, and distribution, creating new challenges in terms of legality, legitimacy, and accessibility. One prominent issue that has emerged is digital piracy, a practice that continues to gain ground worldwide. While often considered a violation of intellectual property rights, it remains widespread, with segments of society viewing it as morally acceptable, thus highlighting a gap between legal standards and public moral perception. This disconnect has prompted a growing debate on how digital piracy should be regulated, particularly when traditional legal mechanisms seem ineffective in addressing the underlying causes of this phenomenon. This article aims to develop a comprehensive framework that views digital piracy not merely as an infringement of law, but as a multifaceted social issue, incorporating moral, cognitive, distributive, and participatory governance dimensions. It also proposes a paradigmatic shift from punitive approaches to more equitable, inclusive regulatory strategies. Our findings show that punitive legal models fail to account for the social, moral, and psychological factors instigating piracy. Instead, piracy is often framed as a form of resistance against perceived injustice and exclusion from cultural goods. This article concludes that addressing digital piracy in a more meaningful way requires a more nuanced regulatory approach, combining incentives, participatory governance, and distributive justice to create a fairer and more ethical framework for managing piracy in the digital era.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La expansión exponencial de los contenidos digitales ha transformado profundamente la producción y distribución cultural, dando lugar a debates sobre su legalidad, legitimidad y acceso. Es así como la piratería digital, práctica extendida en la sociedad, desafía las normas legales y es frecuentemente percibida como moralmente aceptable por amplios sectores, evidencia una brecha entre la ley formal y las intuiciones morales. En ese contexto, el objetivo de este estudio es desarrollar un marco que conceptualice la piratería digital como un fenómeno social complejo, al integrarse dimensiones morales, cognitivas, distributivas y de gobernanza participativa, se propone un giro desde el enfoque punitivo hacia regulaciones más equitativas. Los resultados muestran que los modelos tradicionales basados en la sanción no logran abordar las justificaciones sociales y morales profundamente enraizadas de la piratería. Por lo tanto, la piratería se interpreta como una forma de resistencia ante la injusticia percibida y la exclusión estructural en el acceso a bienes culturales. En conclusión, se subraya que, para abordar de manera efectiva la piratería digital, es necesario un enfoque multidimensional que incorpore incentivos, gobernanza participativa y justicia distributiva, más allá de la simple disuasión. De ese modo, se ofrece una estrategia más legítima, eficaz y ética para gestionar la piratería en la era digital, permitiendo una regulación más sensible a las realidades sociales y económicas actuales.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[access to information]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[cultural policy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[piracy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[social justice]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[acceso a la información]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[política cultural]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[piratería]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[propiedad intelectual]]></kwd>
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