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%.
  • @ccdfa@lemm.eeEnglish
    86•9 months ago

    I can’t find it now, but there was that one text post that went something like “1. Copying a movie costs the studio money, 2. Download a movie, 3. Make 1000 copies, 4. Studio goes bankrupt”

    • @maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
      46•9 months ago

      I saw one where it went:

      • Publish a copyrighted work
      • Sell it for 10 bucks
      • Have a friend pirate it 100 million times
      • Declare bankruptcy
      • Have the friend delete his copies
      • You’re a billionaire now