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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months 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.