Does your mental model of human behavior explain the 2000s warez scene? • Competition to leak high profile albums • High risk of prison • Not for profit! • Against rules to share leaks outside The Scene • Not about love for music. They leaked the SpongeBob movie soundtrack
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Why do you say anonymous? The individuals had a strong identity within the group. The fact that they didn't use real names doesn't matter, we can attach reputation to a long-lived pseudonym just fine.
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Sorry, pseudonymous. Point was just that 1. We're talking pseudonymous social capital within IRC 2. Social capital is independent from "real life", and 3. the fact that social capital can be defined in terms of anything seems possibly accurate, but definitely nontrivial
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I don't see that social capital becomes less important as an incentive when we remove real names. We still have strong identity within the group. "Real-life" is a red herring. For those immersed in hacker/gaming communities, that is their real-life!
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Yeah I think I agree with you then. I was probably just being obnoxious, but I was just trying to defend that this is a more extreme claim than it might seem at first. Seems like a shift in the same direction that behavioral econ took when it pushed back on the rational actor
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Did I misread the image that you posted though. Did they change to one-shot random 3-letter pseudos? IMO that would change everything if their identities were not long-lasting
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You read it correctly. This was two people who were previously some of the biggest leakers who returned back to the scene. One idea: once you feel sufficiently validated by others that you're doing distinguished work, the need for social capital goes awayhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1006402308622520320 …
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I like that explanation ... i.e. diminishing returns.
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