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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 This is a largely outdated representation of reality, as girls and women began to catch up a long time ago.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.

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In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men

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  • 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.

  • by Shaitan ( 22585 ) on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:33AM (#64290708)

    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.

  • by zenlessyank ( 748553 ) on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:58AM (#64290720)

    Men *usually* know how to keep their mouth shut.

  • by fleeped ( 1945926 ) on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:43AM (#64290738)
    More men using software tools means more men pirate software. More women watching TV means more women pirate TV shows. Also, does measured piracy include going to a street vendor and getting DVDs or maybe USB sticks if that's the modern equivalent? Because that doesn't require savviness at all
    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      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.

      • 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.

      • Right, didn't know that and actually wouldn't surprise me, but why would men pirate more software in that case?
        • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          Maybe less aware of the dangers. Pirated software often contains malware, so people in the know usually avoid it.

  • 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. When , where, how many involved, gender, race, etc. ??? 2 lady researchers from Northumbria University Newcastle released findings for Asian countries. 1-2-1 face-2-face interviews: 20, Online survey: 1170/1157. Some interviewees did not differentiate between piracy and trademark infringement, even after a clear definition was offered Most of the respondents could not recall when piracy or related issues were ever the subject of public discussion. So some didn't e
  • But then what has it ever done to earn that respect?

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