The point is that your wife is in the minority. The vast majority of people wouldn't consider torrenting, let alone *arrs. People with a greater willingness to tinker and learn technical stuff are the ones who'll consider it, and that group is overwhelmingly composed of men as of right now.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm seeing 3:1 male female from this source, but I figure data collection on torrent users is tricky: https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Anecdotally, that makes sense. If you were to look at piracy overall, however, I wouldn't be surprised if that ratio was closer to 50/50.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Result of gender stereotypes affecting the behaviour of female and male children, so male children grow up to be more encouraged to learn about technology and engage in risk taking behaviour.

Also inclination to risk taking behaviour is much higher in biological men than biological women, which would also give a potential reason why this advertisment works on women but not on men.

As always these attributions only represent the average of the women and men populations as a whole. Ofc. there is risk averse men and tech savvy women.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The word cis or cisgender is right there my friend. Trans people are still biological, after all.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

So, unless there are three times as many male pirates as female, those messages are effective at reducing piracy.

That would not surprise me at all.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If I put the over/under at 10x male pirate to female, are you taking the under?

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

46% of pirates in the UK were women in 2018.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Based on what data?

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, indirectly sourced from here: https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.