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%.
  • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.