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%.

Bittorrent is also only a portion of pirating, but that’s showing 3:1 globally, https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/

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Complete garbage website. Tons of conflicting info, suppositions, and when you bother to look at the sources, their claims quickly fall apart. For example,

In 2022, pirate website visits hit a record of 215 billion.9

-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.

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