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  • anti-piracy messages increase piracy

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 28 17:38:04 2024
    From the «you wouldn't steal a Usenet post» department:
    Feed: The Next Web
    Title: Anti-piracy messages encourage MORE piracy — if you’re a man
    Author: Thomas Macaulay
    Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:20:37 -0500
    Link: https://thenextweb.com/news/anti-piracy-campaign-messages-encourage-piracy-men

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    Anti-piracy campaigns can actually cause more piracy — if you’re a man. So say
    the cybercrime experts at the University of Portsmouth, who investigated efforts
    to deter illegal torrenting, streaming, and file-sharing. To test the techniques, the researchers exposed 962 adults to threatening messages used in anti-piracy campaigns. They then evaluated potential changes in behaviour. They discovered a cavernous gender gap. The messages led piracy intentions to decline
    by 52% in women, but they increased by 18% in men. “The research shows that anti-piracy messages can inadvertently increase piracy, which is a phenomenon known as psychological reactance,” said lead study author…

    This story continues[2] at The Next Web

    Links:
    [1]: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F02%2FUntitled-design-3-1.jpg&signature=8186285de675b30b93805666bdad53eb (image)
    [2]: https://thenextweb.com/news/anti-piracy-campaign-messages-encourage-piracy-men?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed (link)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Feb 28 20:30:30 2024
    On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:38:04 GMT, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    The messages led piracy intentions to decline by 52% in women,
    but they increased by 18% in men. "The research shows that
    anti-piracy messages can inadvertently increase piracy, which is a
    phenomenon known as psychological reactance," said lead study author...


    What is an example of psychological reactance?

    An example of psychological reactance is a child eating as many
    cupcakes as they can simply because their parent told them that they
    shouldn't eat so many. https://study.com/academy/lesson/psychological-reactance-theory.html

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