Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

54837 readers

942 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others

Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

💰 Please help cover server costs.


Ko-fi	Liberapay

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

858

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

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

237 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The word cis or cisgender is right there my friend. Trans people are still biological, after all.