# Evaluation of Digital Piracy by Youths
## 6 Limitations and New Directions of Research  
Some limitations may affect the data collection process, namely, filling in online questionnaires. Adolescents may be afraid of the legal consequences of breaking the law, and this results in answers of dubious authenticity. Adolescents may also interpret piracy differently because of the variations in their understanding of the penalty aspect of the acts of reproducing and making available copyrighted files. Knowledge of copyright is hard to interpret for both adolescents and adults. Therefore, the data collected provide a foundation on which to develop preventive curricula based on the proposed seven categories. Also, the examples of predictors for the variables allow the creation of new tools which would consider more than just the influence of the economic and legal factors on the level of piracy in society.  
The data presented should also be treated very carefully in terms of the interpretation of the impact of piracy on the lives of young people. For them, piracy may be a factor that supports their intellectual development and that accompanies the improvement of competencies. Thus, piracy has different aspects which should be studied beyond the scope of the legal consequences.  
The open question used in the research tool allows for a variety of answers. The open field allows us to obtain data bringing a new perspective in the interpretation of digital piracy among adolescents. At the same time, it is noted that some of the collected data can go beyond the research problem posed. It should therefore be clearly stressed that the methodology used in this study is characterised by duality in terms of efficiency and methodological suitability.  
The results presented are also subject to the limitation of generalisation. Despite the fact that the analysis covered 1320 questionnaires, the sampling was not fully random. This means that there is the possibility of additional indicators appearing in certain categories of answers which were not gathered during the study. Also, despite the optimisation of the research procedure to ensure anonymity, the survey took place in schools. These factors could have disrupted the research process. The adolescents might have different concerns preventing them from providing their full opinion about piracy in the questionnaire.  
The new directions of research into piracy should also include free and subscribed forms of distribution of digital files. Free services operating in the VOD mode are very popular channels for distributing movies among adolescents. This type of e-service also provides young people with easy access to a wide range of musical works. Therefore, the minimisation of piracy as an longitudinal--spread over time phenomenon should refer to changes in the information society, consisting in the growing popularity of free (e.g., financed by advertisers) services providing access to films and music. The current generation of adolescents has completely different possibilities in this field from, for example, their peers from decades ago. Taking this into account is becoming a necessity for a full understanding of the phenomenon of piracy.