>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%.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-anti-piracy-messages-backfire-men.amp
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More of a music thing, but can an older millennial tell me why people were so militantly anti Metallica when it came to the Napster thing? What’s wrong with not wanting your music stolen? I pirate stuff too it’s just weird to me how people seemed to think Metallica was in the wrong for NOT wanting it to happen?
>inb4 hi Lars
because they demanded prosecutions, criminal records, gigantic fines.
They were huge homosexuals about it.
There are still people paying off fines today because they downloaded a Metallica album off Napster.
>There are still people paying off fines today because they downloaded a Metallica album off Napster.
I've thought about this, it's been 20 years since those RIAA lawsuits happened. Some of those people were ordered to pay more than an average person could conceivably pay back in a lifetime. If I was one of those I would do whatever I needed to get out of that, I hope some of them did too
Lars is a mega giga homosexual
What's the source of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Officiis
Cicero
The main way thrash metal bands used to distribute music back in the early 1980s was pirated mixtapes passed around in the SF bay area. It's in bad taste that they would get butthurt about it 10 years later when a bunch of kids did the same on the internet.
They sold out!
Metallica are cringe. They should be grateful that anybody wants to listen to the utter shit that they put out.
I remembe when I was a little kid I downloaded "I Disappear" from the MI:2 soundtrack along with "Whiskey In A Jar"
My parents got a letter in the mail that Metallica was going to sue us for like 4 million dollars. My dad almost threw the computer out the window
I always knew Metallica was shit so had no need to down load there bloops
Lmao feels good
good morning sir
>Steal something
>Victim still has it
The horror...
Most bands weren't big enough to make money from their record sales, it was all touring. Anyone not at Metallica's level was in love with the free promotion they weren't getting from the radio.
>Metallica
They were and still are
Pretentious homosexuals
>me why people were so militantly anti Metallica when it came to the Napster thing
Because they were already rice homosexual rocks stars who also happened to be putting out some dogshit music since the mid 90s. You want people to buy your records Lars? Start playing thrash instead of dogshit radio rock.
>What’s wrong with not wanting your music stolen?
Copying =! stealing. No one took their master recordings or shoplifted their CDs dumbass
>I pirate stuff too
Quit lying you bootlicker
>James Rolfe on the left
Metallica wa mainstream pop by then and they were all multimillionaires complaining that people were getting songs for free, which isnt really different from recording a live radio broadcast on cassette.
The thing is that the record company pushed Metallica to be very vocal about it because every dollar that Metallica got the record company most likely got 10. So it's the record company's profits being threatened.
what
said.
It wasn't the fact Metallica was against it, it was that they were militantly litigious, and got Napster shut down.
Did they own the label? The way bands make money is doing shows, selling tickets and selling merch. They don't make shit on CDs. Their shit getting pirated is as good as radio play, it means people know about it so they'll go to shows and buy merch
Bands do make money off of records
Most bands don’t make a lot though which is why shows are so important
Because all the members of Metallica are huge gays.
Because even back then we knew lost profits from piracy were negligible and piracy as a whole is a good thing. It's free promotion for good artists and bad publicity for shitty ones.
>pirate movie/show/music
>you like it
>buy a legit copy to support the artists
vs
>buy legit copy
>oh no! it fricking sucks! you fell for the marketing!
>return it
>store takes the hit
>artist/director/producer/record label/whatever still counts it as a sold record
>use it to promote and prop up shitty artists
>marketers get better and better at selling goyslop
>company profits tell execs people want shit and slop
>all art forms suffer and stagnate
>buy legit copy
>oh no! it fricking sucks! you fell for the marketing!
>return it
>store takes the hit
I didn't know of any music stores that would let you return things
I've only returned games since they cost so much more. Movies or albums I would just eat the loss. But then never buy another product from that artist. Still haven't spent a dime on EA since Mass Effect 3.
They don’t. The anon you’re replying to is a literal moron or else he would know that. I assumed it was just common sense anyway but oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
Metallica actually weren't opposed to Napster. They sued some dudes who literally stole physical tapes from their studio. The courts told them that they had to get the files removed from the internet before the case could move forward. So they sent Napster a C&D. For whatever reason, everyone blamed Metallica ONLY even though Madonna, Dr. Dre, Eminem, and 50 Cent (among others) were involved in suing and/or publically criticizing Napster directly. Lars even went on record saying that he didn't care if people pirated Metallica's music and that they would have left Napster alone if not for the lawsuit against a couple of literal burglars who took shit from their studio and leaked it online.
Sure Lars
If people like you were brutally tortured to death in public, America would be a better place.
In other news, water is wet and OP is a gay
>risk of computer viruses, identity fraud, money and data theft and hacking
Are people still downloading Brittany_Speers_Nude_XXX_hardcore_sex_movie_full.mov.sc?
Because I'm still sharing it.
Women obey. Men see someone telling them not to do something as a challenge. Also if you tell a man something is forbidden it will make him more likely to become interested in it
Zamn
Why does the Government get involved when you steal something from a private entity?
Because the old israelites of early Hollywood were in cahoots with the FBI to find Communists in Hollywood, which eventually led to the FBI being dogs for New Hollywood. Honestly a waste of tax payer money.
Didn't this already get proven with D.A.R.E.? I learned more about what any particular drug was called and did from a couple of health classes than I ever did from my idiot friends.
PCP sounded really good to me
>governments shocked that men have authority issues
this is what happens when you forget there's actually 2 biological genders
If some moron in a millionaire's mansion tells me I'm the bad guy because I don't pay for their garbage, you better be sure that I'll just seed the torrent even if I'm not planning to watch the movie.
Pettiness can be a powerful force.
My body is a machine fueled by spite and Jack Daniels
jim beam is better
>Napster
It's worth saying that when Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Audiogalaxy and the others were around, you couldn't readily buy digital downloads. You had to go buy a physical album and rip the audio from that if you wanted to be legal.
even back then there was a study that showed that people who pirated media bought 20% more than the average consumer because they found things they liked and could try them out first
That was literally the case for me because Napster did make it much easier to find music you liked. I wanted to play it in my car in the late 90s and early 00s you just played the CD.
You could technically burn the CD to play it but that was a crap shoot, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. But I did buy albums after downloading songs from them and I think everyone else I knew did too.
This. Then Netflix, Pandora, etc came along and virtually killed internet piracy. But the media producers got greedy again. Made it less convenient to consume media legitimately than illegitimately. Which is really what it comes down to. Convenience. Want to stop internet piracy? Make your media as or more convenient to access as pirating is while offering a higher quality product. That's it. That's all these fricks have to do to combat piracy. But no. Instead of one ad free streaming service where you can legally watch damn near whatever you want you need 5 or more subscriptions to different streaming sites. That is why piracy has shot up again.
>no dont pirate things!
>haha 3d printer go brrrr
The only based thing Australia has ever done was rule that pirates couldn't be extorted in IP letters and the max they were liable for was the cost of the movie (Dallas Buyers Club case).
born in '85 here. metallica weren't hated so much as not really a thing at all. none of my friends were into them or even had an opinion on them. they were never on mtv or the radio, just on beavis' t shirt. Around 2003 or 2004 i took a taxi and the cab driver was listening to some new metallica and I thought they absolutely sucked. like I didn't understand why they were so famous at all.
>born in '85 here
Absolutely worthless opinion on a gen x band that peaked when you were born. I may as well ask a zoomer about weezer.
moron
Man here, I still pirate pretty much all my music, but then I buy tickets to their shows and sometimes even buy some merch. Hell I bought a limited edition bomber jacket from my favourite NRW band and I pirated literally all of their songs, that jacket cost more than all of their 7 albums put together and it looks fricking fantastic as well so win-win imo
>buy thing
>copy it
>give to your friend
>this is somehow the same as pointing a gun at someone and taking their wallet