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%.
  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Make it easy for me to get the shit that I want and maybe I won’t pirate. It’s fucking easier to just pirate shit than to sign up for a bunch of services and deal with asscunt companies. Fuck you.

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    “You wouldn’t put on a tricorn hat, would you?”

    I actually would, if I could find a nice one…

    “…and leave your job to sail the seas?”

    … That’s an option? I didn’t even consider-

    “And you certainly wouldn’t drink rum, and fire cannons, and carry a saber and tell silly parrot related puns.”

    buys a tricorn hat

  • branch@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Those Ads at the beginning of legitimate copies of DVDS and movies, really bugged me, like why are you annoying the people who actually bought the product!? Also the people downloading stuff online seemed cool in those videos so I think the ads had the opposite effect a lot of the time.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    i remember when valve’s steam completely killed nearly all video game piracy just by existing

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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      8 months ago

      There was a golden age of Netflix where I basically stopped pirating movies and TV too.

      Now streaming is a fragmented ad-ridden nightmare and I pirate more than ever before. It’s not like it’s free either, I pay for a VPN, disk storage, let alone the time and maintenance.

      If I could buy (and actually own) high quality digital copies of movies/tv with no bullshit at a reasonable price that would be a serious value proposition that would beat out the hassles that come along with piracy.