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Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men (phys.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Anecdotally, that makes sense. If you were to look at piracy overall, however, I wouldn't be surprised if that ratio was closer to 50/50.