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

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Allero@lemmy.today
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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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ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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So, unless there are three times as many male pirates as female, those messages are effective at reducing piracy.

That would not surprise me at all.

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D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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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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