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The conclusion doesn't follow the study.
Threatening messages decrease piracy by women by over 50%, while increasing piracy by men by 18%.
So, unless there are three times as many male pirates as female, those messages are effective at reducing piracy.
If I put the over/under at 10x male pirate to female, are you taking the under?
Bittorrent is also only a portion of pirating, but that's showing 3:1 globally, https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/
Complete garbage website. Tons of conflicting info, suppositions, and when you bother to look at the sources, their claims quickly fall apart. For example,
-9. "Average Teenager's iPod Has 800 Illegal Music Tracks" by The Times - written June 2008
I agree, but I haven't been able to find a lot of good studies past about 2005; and a lot has changed since then.
46% of pirates in the UK were women in 2018.
Based on what data?
University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, indirectly sourced from here: https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/
I guess we'll just have to take their word for it since they don't actually link to anything or provide the data. In fact, that whole statement doesn't even appear to be attributed to the University of Amsterdam. It appears the preceding statement about 25-34 year olds pirating is what's attributed to the university.