Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men
Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men
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%.
Ya know what stops piracy? A better service than what piracy provides.
It's funny how we see totally different effects there in regards to music, as all apps have almost all of the music. Spotify e.g. is so popular here that noone streams or downloads music illegally anymore. And you only need Spotify.
The solution is simple. Cave to the labels in power and be ruthless to anyone else. This way you can have the whole catalogue of music in your app while surviving economically. Until.. the enshitification becomes too strong again and we'll have a piracy revival. And then a new service pops up again, etc..
The circle of life of pop culture under capitalism.
Plus I can integrate Tidal with my local collection as if I had downloaded it and combine it all on any device wherever I am with Plexamp
They had it. They decided three yachts aren't enough.
Well the price also needs to be affordable but most what you said.
"you wouldn't download a car"
Fuck you yes I would. Invents 3d printing
It's like the anti piracy messages are just advertising for piracy
how else im supposed to play some arbitrary game with cars from a digital game copy?
The "you wouldn't download a car" joke is one thing. What I don't understand is how people genuinely use a satirical joke as a supporting argument for piracy, or a critique of anti-piracy.
The advertising never said downloading a car. It was stealing a car, which is very clearly a crime.
You are free to claim auto theft is not comparable to digital piracy. You are free to suggest that somehow in the future you'd be able to home manufacturer a vehicle (although a bit far fetched IMO). But criticizing an ad campaign for something they've never said is just silly.
If I stole someone's car, and an exact copy of the car was left there for them, I'd probably be okay with stealing a car. Copying a file isn't the same as stealing a physical album. That's the criticism of that ad campaign, they aren't equal comparisons. Besides, if buying isn't owning, then copying isn't stealing.
I mean, they could simply provide all content, in one convenient place, for a reasonable price, and on release.
But would it disappear someday without warning? I'm not one to do a lot of pirating but the times I'm most tempted to take up the habit are when things that were supposed to be "purchased" just disappear and there's nothing customers can do about it...or when I see some crazy anti-pirating argument. The urge to do it out of spite is real.
Depends whether or not they hide some code to give them the option to remote disable your files after you've downloaded them, and if they to restrict your ability to create backup copies & play your files on devices you own.
There's no reason why they couldn't make stuff available in ways which buyers could feel confident in.
Who would have thought people don't like being threatened?
I imagine for a lot of people an anti piracy campaign simply serves to alert them that piracy is possible and apparently so common and easy that everybody else must be doing it. They probably walk away curious about learning a new hobby more than fearing the consequences.
I like to call it the D.A.R.E. Effect.
As a man, I support this message.
Now I'm gonna piracy even harder
when buying isn't owning, downloading isn't theft
The only logical conclusion.. a pro piracy message. Yarrrrrr
It's strange that we've put so much work into DRM and yet piracy persists. Surely by now the technology would've eliminated pirates. Almost as if...
...they need better DRM / more anti-piracy laws / more digital thugs to canvas the internet looking for pirates ...? /s
It's funny how quickly stupid 17 year old me back in the 80s figured out that it was all just a pointless arms race and piracy would never subside until games got affordable. I always told myself I would go legit once I could afford it and I did. That was games. Same principles apply.
This is us v them issue...
If these clowns think I will pay for some shiti teevee while having to pay rent and food when i can get teeveet for free... they are about to find out what discretionary spending means and there is nothing they can do about it.
If they thought shiti PR would change that, these people really dumber than we thought.
There are few things I want to download more than a car, and that stupid movie theater ad is the entire reason.
The best part is that pirates don't need to sit through the bullshit anti piracy messages