Why did colleges stay mum on MPAA stats?
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| For two years, the film industry has relied on an erroneous figure to
| persuade the public that college students are thieves. The MPAA acknowledged
| Tuesday that a survey it released in 2005 overstated the damage caused by
| piracy at the nation's universities. The MPAA now says that instead of 44
| percent, students account for 15 percent of domestic losses, or about $195
| million.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9858416-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Apple's iPhone numbers do not add up
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| Millions being unlocked - or gathering dust at Carphone Warehouse
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| [...]
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| Which means there are either 1.3m iPhones being used as bookends, or an awful
| lot of people have gone to the trouble of unlocking the devices to run them
| on different networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/25/iphone_numbers_confusion/
Microsoft does this endlessly by the way. Just look at Zune, XBox, Office and
Vista channel-stuffing. They lie without shame.
Related:
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
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| But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told
| education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number
| wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33CBI8sUdc5ni7RlxSj5SIEc2mwD8UB6S0O2
Business Model Gone Bad: The Music and Movie Edition
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| How Realistic is this new Business Model?
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| How realistic is this? I think it is very realistic.
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http://www.5thwind.com/?p=58
Hollywood Goes Too Far to Protect Content
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| I first found out about the problem on New Year’s Eve, when I went to log
| into my account. When I tried to launch a streaming movie, I was greeted with
| an error message asking me to “reset” my DRM. Luckily, Netflix’s help page on
| the topic included a link to a DRM reset utility, but when I went to install
| the program, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this warning.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/58905-hollywood-goes-too-far-to-protect-content?source=yahoo
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