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MPAA admits incorrectly estimating college piracy losses
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article published on 23 January, 2008
The MPAA is now backing away from statistics they began using in 2005 as a bullet point in their legal assault on college campuses. The study which generated the statistics claimed that 44% of their domestic losses due to piracy came from college students. However, the group has now admitted that due to "human error" the real number, which is more like 15%, was exaggerated.
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mediabob
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23. January 2008 @ 14:46 |
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who the heck would believe an MPAA statistic... theyre lying scum bags
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AfterDawn Addict
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23. January 2008 @ 14:50 |
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*dies laughing*
this is why there should be separation of corporation and state....
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23. January 2008 @ 14:58 |
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How much of my tax money was wasted by this?
The MPAA gets law enforcement involved in what the MPAA liars sell as the "MOST SERIOUS CRIME EVER, EVER, EVAAARRRRR!!!!" and I have to pay the damn bill?
They should be SUED.
They should be ARRESTED and PROSECUTED for false representations made in a warrant, which last time I checked, was a FELONY in some states.
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23. January 2008 @ 14:58 |
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Man, is it getting deep in here? Or is it just me?
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wetsparks
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23. January 2008 @ 23:24 |
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Quote:
...due to "human error"...
I'm sorry, but what?!?!? 44% down to 15% is a pretty big error. The "human error" is more like "we lied and got caught" error.
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24. January 2008 @ 00:00 |
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I think the "good" folks at the mpaa need a few remedial math classes and for the sake of everyone's ribs keep them away from the game show "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?"
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ikari
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24. January 2008 @ 19:15 |
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Funny thing is: They won't get in trouble. But I guarantee if it was you or me that made a claim like that, we would be sued and fined until we were penniless and in millions of dollars in debt.
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hermes_vb
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27. January 2008 @ 13:18 |
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And in other news MPAA proclaims the Earth is flat...
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DDR4life
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27. January 2008 @ 19:36 |
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@hermes_vb
"And in other news MPAA proclaims the Earth is flat..."
lol.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
MPAA proclaims Earth devoid of a spherical nature!
Statements to the contrary in violation of copyright!
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nobrainer
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29. January 2008 @ 12:21 |
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An interesting read about this can be found here:
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/01/29/green
Originally posted by linkage:
The Movie Industry?s 300% Error
We also have to admire the MPAA?s arrogance. The MPAA now asserts that college students account for 15 percent rather than 44 percent of the P2P piracy affecting the motion picture industry. However the press release says nothing ? not a word ? about the source of the other ?85 percent? of the P2P piracy that affects the industry?s revenues, the activities of ?civilians? who use consumer broadband services.
how can they tell how much revenue was lost exactly, who's to say that every person that downloaded a film didn't purchase a real copy once they realised it wasn't complete trash, or didn't purchase it because like much of the big media productions it turned out to be complete talentless rubbish that relied on flashy effects and green screens, in which case this is hollywoods own fault for expecting ppl to continue to purchase worthless inane cow pat films, or would have ever purchased it and the only reason the watch the content was because of it being free because of whatever reason!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. January 2008 @ 12:25
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kubapolak
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31. January 2008 @ 19:48 |
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this is outrageous and is unacceptable!!! I hope the MPAA gets punished!!!!
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18. February 2008 @ 02:00 |
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A lawyer for the defence should use this article as a part of their case against the mpaa and riaa.
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