Threatening messages aimed to prevent digital piracy have the opposite effect if you're a man, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found. According to the research, women tend to respond positively to this kind of messaging, but men typically increase their piracy behaviors by 18%.
  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If a paid streaming service give users a worse experience than pirating, that’s on them!

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Statistic is a really funny science. So some man who just pirate a 1 h 40 long movie will be inspired to also pirate a sitcom episode from the antipiracy campagne?

  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    People who bought the movie seeing anti-piracy ads: 🤡

    People who pirated the movie not seeing anti-piracy ads because they’ve been cut out: 😎

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m suspicious of the idea that women respond favorably to those notices.

    “You wouldn’t download a car…” Women: Gee, officer, that’s a good point.

    Riiiiiiight…

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      According to the article, these were threatening messages (one about potential viruses, another about legal penalties). It fits gender stereotypes perfectly for women to seek to mitigate risks while seek someone to hold their beer.

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        So the result of the study is “it’s pretty easy to scare women into submission”? Sounds like a great use of their time and resources. 🤮

    • los_chill@programming.devEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, proper cohort attribution seems to be a little lacking by this data analyst. I’d say gender bias has already occured before your specific sample point… bro

    • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Lol piracy intentions :P

      now we need a follow up study comparing gender differences between who gets caught more.

    • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      They work on my mother, but she has the kind of faith in the system I honestly envy. It seems like a much more tranquil existence.

      This is the same woman who thinks the Judge Rotenburg center must not be that bad, because otherwise it would have already been closed down. She just…can’t imagine a regulatory failure that big actually happening.

  • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I actually spent time on ripping the ‘you wouldn’t steal…’ video from the first DVD that I had with it on it, just for the sheer irony. 😅

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    “oh, right. If I had just pirated this my content wouldn’t be delayed by these stupid piracy warnings.”

    • olbaidiablo @lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Sony lost any moral high ground when they put a commercial for a Toyota on my Blu-ray of 1408 which retailed for $35 at the time. And of course, you can’t skip it.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        That reminded me about those long, unskippable previews on DVDs… extremely annoying. VLC at least could skip straight to the disc menu though, pretty much ditched Windows Media Player and PowerDVD after that.

        Now here I am on the high seas, with all my media consumption devices running some flavor of Linux. Have not had a single annoyance since.

        • olbaidiablo @lemmy.caEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I’ve been sailing the high seas since BBS’s reigned supreme. Btw, there are telnet BBS’s.

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    We only started pirating after Amazon refused to let us play movies we paid for because our hardware was too old for their DRM. It was a 2014 PC made of recycled parts. At the time, it was less than 10 years old. We pirated the same movie and realized it was easier to find, higher quality, and surprise, surprise, capable of playing on a PC we kept out of the landfill.

    When I see anti piracy measures that punish people that don’t pirate, such as massive performance hits or privacy violating features, it makes me want to pirate more.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I rented a car to do Uber with while I apply for jobs, and the car is an electric. They had no gas powered cars available.

      It is such a pain in the ass. I’ve only had it for a couple of days, but so far I’ve spent 2.5 hours today waiting for charge, and about 5 hours driving passengers.

      I’m ready. I want to download a car. Just need someone to point me in the right direction.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      720 streams run from strange websites in timbucktoo have higher fidelity than the 4K stream I paid good money for.

      Here’s a great price and you can share it with your friends. Wait not those friends. Wait your phone isn’t authorized anymore. Okay you authorized your phone but you need to authorize it again. Okay we just doubled the price and cut the quality again. Now you can’t watch the movies that you downloaded for offline viewing without an internet connection.

      Netflix can take a long hard suck on my pudding factory, they’re never going to see another penny of my money again, and this is from somebody that goes back to the DVD days of Netflix.