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%.
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They work on my mother, but she has the kind of faith in the system I honestly envy. It seems like a much more tranquil existence.

This is the same woman who thinks the Judge Rotenburg center must not be that bad, because otherwise it would have already been closed down. She just…can’t imagine a regulatory failure that big actually happening.

“what’s the Judge Rotenburg Center?” looks it up “Jesus”

Couldn’t even finish reading the Wiki article

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Ok, I had to stop reading at the shock collars for mentally disabled kids. That’s some introduction paragraph.

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