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US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus
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| We've all seen the studies trumpeting
| massive losses to the US economy from
| piracy. One famous figure, used literally
| for decades by rightsholders and the
| government, said that 750,000 jobs and up to
| $250 billion a year could be lost in the US
| economy thanks to IP infringement. A couple
| years ago, we thoroughly debunked that
| figure. For years, Business Software
| Alliance reports on software piracy assumed
| that each illicit copy was a lost sale. And
| the MPAA's own commissioned study on movie
| piracy turned out to overstate collegiate
| downloading by a factor of three.
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| Can we trust any of these claims about
| piracy?
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| The US doesn't think so. In a new report out
| yesterday, the government's own internal
| watchdog took a close look at "efforts to
| quantify the economic effects of counterfeit
| and pirated goods." After examining all the
| data and consulting with numerous experts
| inside and outside of government, the
| Government Accountability Office concluded
| (PDF) that it is "difficult, if not
| impossible, to quantify the economy-wide
| impacts."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars
Feds raise questions about big media's piracy claims
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| Congress tasked the GAO in April 2009 with
| reviewing the efforts to quantify the size
| and scope of piracy, including the impacts
| of Web piracy to the film and music
| industries. In a 32-page report issued
| Monday, the GAO said most of the published
| information, anecdotal evidence, and records
| show that piracy is a drag on the U.S.
| economy, tax revenue, and in some cases
| potentially threatens national security and
| public health. But the problem is, according
| to the GAO, the data used to quantify piracy
| isn't reliable.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20002304-261.html
Recent:
Anti-Pirates Try to Nail The Pirate Bay with Faked Evidence
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| In August, Dutch anti-piracy outfit
| BREIN won its case against The Pirate
| Bay, and the court ordered the
| defendants to block access to Dutch
| visitors. The case was appealed today
| and rightly so. It appears that the
| evidence presented by BREIN was faked in
| an attempt to mislead the court.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-pirates-try-to-nail-the-pirate-bay-with-faked-evidence-091008/
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