Current Events > Study shows anti-pirate messages can cause people to pirate more

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-023-05597-5

Conclusion
The TV/film industries are profitable to the global economy and protecting their intellectual property is important to innovation and growth. Notwithstanding, evidence from this study suggests that a third of the population admits to pirating TV/films and a fifth of the population believes that piracy does no harm to society. This indicates that a message that challenges attitudes could be an important intervention in combatting piracy. Our results show that pro-social, educational messages tend to be an ineffective intervention in reducing piracy intentions. This may be caused by the survey delivery method of the message in this study and more research is needed to test the effect of more engaging educational messages on piracy attitudes and behaviors.

This study suggests that the group who pirate the most frequently (men with favorable attitudes towards piracy) is also the group who react the most negatively to threatening messages, suggesting the presence of psychological reactance. The message that caused the most reactance (Crimestoppers) in this group was the most detailed in terms of technical risks. The authors speculate that the level of detail induces reactanceas there is more information to disagree withpriming confirmation bias. More research is needed to test nuances in risk messages and to compare whether the level of threat or the level of detail influences reactance in men with favorable attitudes towards piracy. The results of this research indicate that by targeting threatening anti-piracy messages, particularly the Graduated Response message, carefully at women, they may be effective in decreasing overall piracy.

reddit summary:

Anti-piracy messages can cause people to pirate more rather than less, with gender differences. One threatening message influences women to reduce their piracy intentions by over 50% and men to increase it by 18%, finds a new study.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1bdn5s7/antipiracy_messages_can_cause_people_to_pirate/

Wasnt there already studies like more than a decade ago showing piracy doesnt negatively impact profit and in a lot of cases increases it as well

You wouldn't steal a car

It's my view that the best anti-piracy measure is to make buying and using the product legally as frictionless as possible.

You say that men with favorable attitudes towards piracy are the same group that pirates most frequently? Glad we took the time to study this

UnsteadyOwl posted...

It's my view that the best anti-piracy measure is to make buying and using the product legally as frictionless as possible.

but that requires effort and work when you could just effortlessly throw DRM at something and then sell user data to make more money

UnsteadyOwl posted...

It's my view that the best anti-piracy measure is to make buying and using the product legally as frictionless as possible.

Fucking this

Jiek_Fafn posted...

You say that men with favorable attitudes towards piracy are the same group that pirates most frequently? Glad we took the time to study this

that is not what the study found

Dakimakura posted...

You wouldn't steal a car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7N-JtQWGI

You're telling me I could have downloaded this shit for free instead of paying and watching this lecture like a sucker?

mystic_belmont posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7N-JtQWGI

the future!

WingsOfGood posted...

that is not what the study found

This study is based on previous research which it directly builds off of. It's referenced in a bolded and underlined segment that you posted.

I generally don't pirate, mor do I have anything against people who do but the people who pirate also tend to act as paying consumers and expect their wants for the content they are buying to be met as well as expect the content to continue to be made.

That doesn't always end up panning out.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

This study is based on previous research which it directly builds off of. It's referenced in a bolded and underlined segment that you posted.

no the info you claimed was known before the study

the study conclusion is about reacting to messages

WingsOfGood posted...

no the info you claimed was known before the study

the study conclusion is about reacting to messages

What do you think "based on previous research" means

I like little joke ones like these

https://youtu.be/4SfRykg145I

I think a lot of people view it as them preventing the 1% from reaching the 0.9% and finding it very hard to find fucks to give

Like the optics of what Metallica did by whining about were terrible

A lot of reactions to moral guardians.

this doesn't seem too surprising to me

like, imagine you buy a movie or whatever, sit down to watch it, and the very first thing you see is a big screen-filling message that essentially says "lol you could be watching this for free instead, loser"

Of course piracy doesn't cause harm to society. It's one of those things where the rights holder has every right to go after and try to prevent piracy, but it comes across as kind of silly when all piracy does is increase the popularity of your product out in the world.

People who pirate anime and manga will still buy merchandise. People who pirate movies can go online and talk about how much they liked the movie.

It's a similar principal to a game that's free-to-play. Some players literally never pay money into the game, but the added player count and word of mouth still benefits the game more than if those players had never played it at all.

Do people even pirate movies any more? I just assumed it went away when people stopped wanting to own DVDs and we all switched to streaming.

Like, I've bought perhaps 10-15 movies in my life, but the last of those was more than 15 years ago.

DarkDoc posted...

Do people even pirate movies any more? I just assumed it went away when people stopped wanting to own DVDs and we all switched to streaming.

Like, I've bought perhaps 10-15 movies in my life, but the last of those was more than 15 years ago.

I don't, but there are some movies that are hard to find on steaming services.

https://imgur.com/gallery/cnu2RrM

Toonstrack posted...

I generally don't pirate, mor do I have anything against people who do but the people who pirate also tend to act as paying consumers and expect their wants for the content they are buying to be met as well as expect the content to continue to be made.

That doesn't always end up panning out.

People that pirate usually wouldn't have bought the product in the first place. There is no lost sale.

DarkDoc posted...

Do people even pirate movies any more? I just assumed it went away when people stopped wanting to own DVDs and we all switched to streaming.

Like, I've bought perhaps 10-15 movies in my life, but the last of those was more than 15 years ago.

There are plenty of illegal streaming sites out there.

Rika_Furude posted...

Wasnt there already studies like more than a decade ago showing piracy doesnt negatively impact profit and in a lot of cases increases it as well

Makes sense to me.

Years ago before Youtube and music streaming was a thing, I was big into downloading music on a P2P file sharing site called Soulseek.

There were plenty of times where I really liked an album that I had downloaded so I searched it out and bought it on vinyl.

Always good to be told again what we already knew was the case

DarkDoc posted...

Do people even pirate movies any more? I just assumed it went away when people stopped wanting to own DVDs and we all switched to streaming.

Like, I've bought perhaps 10-15 movies in my life, but the last of those was more than 15 years ago.

Pirating these days isnt going to sketchy torrent sites and trying to pick the one legit torrent out of the 30 fake ones. You just open your browser or switch your hdmi to your $30 android stick and go to 123watchnetlixhbofreemax.com watch whatever you want in 1080p with no ad interruptions.

I was just looking for the one piece

Making things more accessible is what stopped me pirating in 2017. Movie pass, along with streaming services and VOD led me to stop pirating altogether.

There were like 3 reasons I pirated stuff, no commercials, instant viewing(no reason to get up, grab a DVD set and insert a disc and then choose the episode), and the availability of everything, so I didn't need to wait for a DVD box set to rewatch a show or movie.

It was basically the accessibility of everything. Now that nearly everything is near readily available, I feel no need. I probably pay like 40 a month to avoid pirating and honestly, I'm fine with that.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I don't, but there are some movies that are hard to find on steaming services.

Ah. So the same word applies here? Got it.

Like, I'm rarely taken in by hype to the point where I must watch a specific movie. I just open my watchlist and pick something from there. No big deal if Netflix doesn't have whatever the latest fad is. Most people have hundreds of hours of material on their watchlist, and I probably watch 2-3 hours of TV per week, so I'm not exactly short of stuff to watch - I'll literally never get through it all.

Revelation34 posted...

There are plenty of illegal streaming sites out there.

I see. In my day piracy meant getting a CD/VHS/DVD of the latest album or movie

Sputnik1337 posted...

Pirating these days isnt going to sketchy torrent sites and trying to pick the one legit torrent out of the 30 fake ones.

You mean it's not sitting in a bar and a Chinese guy comes in with a suitcase full of discs?!

Anyway, I'm just gonna throw this out there:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/228-movies-older-releases-and-classics/80510221

DarkDoc posted...

I see. In my day piracy meant getting a CD/VHS/DVD of the latest album or movie

It's both now.

"Winners don't use drugs"

Sending and receiving video files, audio files, whatever, is simply communication and shouldn't be regulated.

I don't like being told what to do so yeah

When you tell someone not to do something, they're only inclined to do it more...that's just the internet (or human nature) for ya.

Reverse Psychology 101.

Its giving calling them racist just makes them even more racist!

One thing I'll say for certain is that websites spamming me with pop-ups telling me to turn off my adblock will absolutely never get me to turn off my adblock.

Spending effort to tell people that they could get your product for free, but they shouldn't do that because reasons when your product is made intentionally non-user friendly really shouldn't be a surprisingly reveal that more people end up pirating it.

A lot of reactions to moral guardians.