In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men (torrentfreak.com) 36
Piracy was traditionally seen as something that predominantly young males were interested in. This is a largely outdated representation of reality, as girls and women began to catch up a long time ago. In some countries, including Indonesia, more women pirate music, movies, and TV-shows than their male counterparts. TorrentFreak reports: [N]ew findings published by researchers from Northumbria University Newcastle, which include gender, are worth highlighting. The survey data, looking at piracy trends in Thailand and Indonesia, was released by Marketing professor Dr. Xuemei Bian and Ms. Humaira Farid. The results were presented to WIPO's Advisory Committee on Enforcement recently and the associated presentation (PDF) was published online. Through an online survey and in-person interviews, the research aims to map consumer attitudes and behaviors in Indonesia and Thailand, particularly in connection with online copyright infringement.
One of the overall conclusions is that piracy remains a common activity in both Asian countries. Pirates are present in all age groups but and music, movies en TV-shows tend to be in highest demand and younger people. Those under 40, are more likely to pirate than their older counterparts. These findings are not out of the ordinary and the same trends are visible in other countries too. Interestingly, however, some notable differences between the two countries appear when gender is added to the mix. The tables below show that women are more likely to pirate than men in Indonesia. This is true for all content categories, except for software, where men are slightly in the lead. In Thailand, however, men are more likely to pirate across all categories. The researchers do not attempt to explain these differences. However, they show once again that 'dated' gender stereotypes don't always match with reality. And when they have little explanatory value, one can question whether gender is even relevant in a piracy context.
Looking at other differences between Thai and Indonesian consumers there are some other notable findings. For example, in Indonesia, 64% of the respondents say they're aware of the availability of pirated movies and TV-shows on YouTube, compared to 'just' 32% in Thailand. Indonesian consumers are also more familiar with music piracy sites and pirate much more frequently than Thai consumers, as the table below shows. Finally, the researchers also looked at various attitudes toward piracy. This shows that Thai pirates would be most likely to stop if legal services were more convenient, while Indonesian pirates see cheaper legal services as the largest discouraging factor.
One of the overall conclusions is that piracy remains a common activity in both Asian countries. Pirates are present in all age groups but and music, movies en TV-shows tend to be in highest demand and younger people. Those under 40, are more likely to pirate than their older counterparts. These findings are not out of the ordinary and the same trends are visible in other countries too. Interestingly, however, some notable differences between the two countries appear when gender is added to the mix. The tables below show that women are more likely to pirate than men in Indonesia. This is true for all content categories, except for software, where men are slightly in the lead. In Thailand, however, men are more likely to pirate across all categories. The researchers do not attempt to explain these differences. However, they show once again that 'dated' gender stereotypes don't always match with reality. And when they have little explanatory value, one can question whether gender is even relevant in a piracy context.
Looking at other differences between Thai and Indonesian consumers there are some other notable findings. For example, in Indonesia, 64% of the respondents say they're aware of the availability of pirated movies and TV-shows on YouTube, compared to 'just' 32% in Thailand. Indonesian consumers are also more familiar with music piracy sites and pirate much more frequently than Thai consumers, as the table below shows. Finally, the researchers also looked at various attitudes toward piracy. This shows that Thai pirates would be most likely to stop if legal services were more convenient, while Indonesian pirates see cheaper legal services as the largest discouraging factor.
Re:When Modern Movements, aren’t. (Score:5, Informative)
Ah yes, let us remember the good old days when STDs were rare... *eyeroll* Definitely no raging epidemics of syphilis, gonorrhea, etc etc, like basically nonstop throughout the past, no sirree...
Yes, one in three *people* (not just women, but kudos to you for choosing to single out women) in the US have a STD. The vast majority of these are HPV, an ubiquitous virus which in most people is completely asymptomatic. The only other one that's remotely common is genital herpes, which is single-digits, and is also asymptomatic in most carriers. 1% have trichomoniasis. Half a percent chlamydia. It goes down from there. Of the "serious STDs" that have been around through history, the rates are WAY lower in the US today than in the past.
Have you ever stopped to consider that it might not be dating apps that are your problem, but rather, your misogyny and desire for women to be treated as chattel?
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And you know it's good when someone uses terms like "304" which are somewhat hard to decode if you're not in the right dank corners of the internet.
Turns out it's a slur for promiscuous women which means the GP is simultaneously complaining that women are too promiscuous and not promiscuous enough (the comment about virgin men).
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And you know it's good when someone uses terms like "304"
I had to look it up.
Wikipedia says it spells "h0E" when entered into a calculator and turned upside down.
Perhaps it would make more sense as a term for a gardener.
304 [wikipedia.org]
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Ah yes, let us remember the good old days when STDs were rare... *eyeroll* Definitely no raging epidemics of syphilis, gonorrhea, etc etc, like basically nonstop throughout the past, no sirree...
Yes, one in three *people* (not just women, but kudos to you for choosing to single out women) in the US have a STD. The vast majority of these are HPV, an ubiquitous virus which in most people is completely asymptomatic. The only other one that's remotely common is genital herpes, which is single-digits, and is also asymptomatic in most carriers. 1% have trichomoniasis. Half a percent chlamydia. It goes down from there. Of the "serious STDs" that have been around through history, the rates are WAY lower in the US today than in the past.
Thrush is another common one that many people are asymptomatic, it's primarily seen as a women's issue as most man are not affected by it (oh boy, is it painful if you are though).
I think any rise in STDs can be put down to poor sexual health care (both in terms of treatment and in people just not caring about their sexual health) and the fact a lot of men refuse to wear condoms with multiple sexual partners.
Have you ever stopped to consider that it might not be dating apps that are your problem, but rather, your misogyny and desire for women to be treated as chattel?
This.
Although dating apps are terrible, geared to get people on them as long as possible to mo
Gender difference (Score:2)
Study gender differences while not acknowledging gender differences to explain no gender differences.
Here's a hypothesis: Young men are more likely to engage in high risk activities. Women will engage in activities they believe have low risk. Women consume more social content. Men consume more information, physical things, and tools.
Re:Gender difference (Score:4, Funny)
Men consume more information, physical things, and tools.
I stopped consuming tools long ago since they cause extreme constipation and frankly don't taste very nice.
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There's more than one kind of tool, Daddy, and it can help with constipation too ;)
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Also those areas are well known for atrong male xontent and low female content. Women are most likely pirating shows because the male dominated networks are not showing women what content they want.
Men like to botxh about DEI but reality is that mixed.
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Gender differences can be modified by economics. For example, there's the classic observation that women are more likely to participate in traditionally male activities like politics and market employment if they come from societies where agriculture was based on low-strength-needed hoe agriculture rather than high-strength-needed plough agriculture [harvard.edu].
And there are some unfortunate flaws in many of the studies which have found "men == physical, women == social". I remember looking at a few of them and dis
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Perhaps "physical" (as opposed to abstract) is not accurate. More "inanimate object" vs "animate subject".
Inevitable (Score:3)
Women aren't stupid. The reality is clear, piracy promotes rather than harms creators and any association with theft is and always has been preposterous.
As long as you create double standards in functionality based on pay rate, price people out of functionality they want, and/or add artificial obstacles or hassles for users people are going to pirate.
Amazon for example has done that with their freevee garbage. People are talking about them adding ads to prime like it is new but it happened when they added the freevee content and clogged up the prime video experience with ad filled content. They are double dipping for as long as possible playing on the confusion they've created.. people pay for ad free content and still get ads, they love the additional confusion of labeling content which is 100% Amazon owned as 'freevee' and acting like having imported it into prime from a service they bought out somehow stops it from being prime video.
This is especially egregious with TV series which are already ridiculously overpriced by charging per season pricing instead of $5-6 for the entire title. Either of these is grounds to make them walk the plank. I dropped their "ad free" option relegated Amazon to a suggestions service the first time I bumped in this and I'm sure everyone else did too.
Women Just Like To Talk About It More. (Score:5, Funny)
Men *usually* know how to keep their mouth shut.
People pirate what they use most. Not surprising (Score:3)
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It could also be because they are a majority Muslim country.
In other majority Muslim countries like Iran, women are actually ahead of men in STEM. They are more likely to have a STEM education and do STEM related jobs, at least in certain areas.
So maybe the women there are just more likely to have the skills needed to use a BitTorrent client, or find a pirate stream.
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In other majority Muslim countries like Iran, women are actually ahead of men in STEM.
That's also true in Gaza, where women are almost twice as likely as men to have college degrees.
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Maybe less aware of the dangers. Pirated software often contains malware, so people in the know usually avoid it.
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Well, there's your problem, looking for a virus to run on a software (Hypercard) that hasn't been seen in almost 30 years!
Whiplash (Score:2)
It's hard seeing an article about Thai and Indonesian piracy without thinking that it's about literal [thephuketnews.com] pirates [wikipedia.org].
online survey and in-person interviews....???? (Score:2)
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It's a feel good article. Don't you feel good now?
No respect for the law (Score:2)
But then what has it ever done to earn that respect?