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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (19 children)

The conclusion doesn't follow the study.

Threatening messages decrease piracy by women by over 50%, while increasing piracy by men by 18%.

So, unless there are three times as many male pirates as female, those messages are effective at reducing piracy.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I would suspect there are many times more male pirates than female.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Because of the technical skill required for pirating and the tech industry being mostly men currently.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    My wife set up an ARR stack, because she didn't like downloading individual episodes. It's not that hard.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The point is that your wife is in the minority. The vast majority of people wouldn't consider torrenting, let alone *arrs. People with a greater willingness to tinker and learn technical stuff are the ones who'll consider it, and that group is overwhelmingly composed of men as of right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm seeing 3:1 male female from this source, but I figure data collection on torrent users is tricky: https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Result of gender stereotypes affecting the behaviour of female and male children, so male children grow up to be more encouraged to learn about technology and engage in risk taking behaviour.

    Also inclination to risk taking behaviour is much higher in biological men than biological women, which would also give a potential reason why this advertisment works on women but not on men.

    As always these attributions only represent the average of the women and men populations as a whole. Ofc. there is risk averse men and tech savvy women.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    If I put the over/under at 10x male pirate to female, are you taking the under?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    46% of pirates in the UK were women in 2018.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, indirectly sourced from here: https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I guess we'll just have to take their word for it since they don't actually link to anything or provide the data. In fact, that whole statement doesn't even appear to be attributed to the University of Amsterdam. It appears the preceding statement about 25-34 year olds pirating is what's attributed to the university.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bittorrent is also only a portion of pirating, but that's showing 3:1 globally, https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Complete garbage website. Tons of conflicting info, suppositions, and when you bother to look at the sources, their claims quickly fall apart. For example,

    In 2022, pirate website visits hit a record of 215 billion.9

    -9. "Average Teenager's iPod Has 800 Illegal Music Tracks" by The Times - written June 2008

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Don't have time to read the research paper linked by the article at the moment...

    But isn't the research just looking at how people view the message and not "were you pirating stuff and now you're not?"

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