"The effect of Robin Hood" makes download pirated video
Approximately 32 million Americans, or 18% of the country's population, have downloaded full-length videos from the Internet at least once in their lives. These are the results of a sociological survey ( PDF ) conducted by Solutions Research Group in September 2006. Characteristically, the absolute majority of files (80%) were obtained from file exchange networks, and only 6.4 million people used legal services.
The face of a typical "pirate" who downloads movies from the Internet: a 29-year-old boy (girls make up only 37% of users of P2P networks), on whose computer 16 films are stored.
The study also showed that Americans' home computers have almost everywhere become entertainment media centers. So, 56% of users watched a DVD from a computer, and 25% watched TV shows. If you add the number of those who watch amateur video on the Internet, it becomes clear that the home PC is a real entertainment center.
Ordinary Americans do not consider downloading unlicensed content from the Internet as a serious offense. The opposite opinion was expressed only by 40% of respondents. For comparison, almost everyone thinks that stealing a CD or DVD from a store is a serious misconduct (78%). But downloading a file from the Internet is not at all.
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Most people explain their behavior by the fact that movie stars, as well as film studios, are already quite rich, so downloading the file for free will not bring them much damage (the “Robin Hood” effect). However, at the same time, they never pack a CD from the store. Consequently, according to analysts , the true causes of illegal behavior are not at all moral, but economic. From an economic point of view, when downloading pirated content, the ratio of risk and reward is much more attractive than when buying a legal file in an online store.
The face of a typical "pirate" who downloads movies from the Internet: a 29-year-old boy (girls make up only 37% of users of P2P networks), on whose computer 16 films are stored.
The study also showed that Americans' home computers have almost everywhere become entertainment media centers. So, 56% of users watched a DVD from a computer, and 25% watched TV shows. If you add the number of those who watch amateur video on the Internet, it becomes clear that the home PC is a real entertainment center.
Ordinary Americans do not consider downloading unlicensed content from the Internet as a serious offense. The opposite opinion was expressed only by 40% of respondents. For comparison, almost everyone thinks that stealing a CD or DVD from a store is a serious misconduct (78%). But downloading a file from the Internet is not at all.
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Most people explain their behavior by the fact that movie stars, as well as film studios, are already quite rich, so downloading the file for free will not bring them much damage (the “Robin Hood” effect). However, at the same time, they never pack a CD from the store. Consequently, according to analysts , the true causes of illegal behavior are not at all moral, but economic. From an economic point of view, when downloading pirated content, the ratio of risk and reward is much more attractive than when buying a legal file in an online store.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5004/
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