So i hope at least a few read the paper and assess their method

I did, which is what made question the journal’s quality for publishing something so easily picked apart.

My comment was honestly less for you than anyone else clicking through, to save them a click. This is “peer reviewed” only in the sense that the author paid $260 for a “publish review” because they couldn’t get into a reputable journal.

https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/

Might want to check if you’re reading a predatory journal next time and save your reading time for something more worthwhile.

Too lazy to upload a separate image, but it’s pink and south of the “stan” in Kazakhstan and north of the “stan” in Pakistan.

That “you wouldn’t download a car” became the meme while the ad itself said “you wouldn’t steal a car” drives home exactly how effective these ads were at conflating the two.

Yeah, I guess so. Best I can recall, most people I knew were either avid pirates or casually saw it as low-level criminal activity by the early 2000s.

You’ve never seen this? Never heard “home taping is killing music” or “don’t copy that floppy”?

I blame the “piracy is stealing” advertising/propaganda. It was super effective, given that we all remember it.

Editing to add one of my favorite videos in the other direction, Copying is Not Theft.