I'll just leave this here

I'll just leave this here
forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2017/09/21/european-commission-accused-of-burying-controversial-piracy-report/

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you're like, a few weeks late. we already had threads about this

Obviously when multi million dollar corporations want to keep their shit secret all they have to do is pay the government money to hide the truth.

Who cares piracy is illegal so stop trying to justify it

so is jaywalking but im still gonna do both

you're late to the party my friend
we already drank all the vodka and all that's left is some piss beer

It's illegal but the reason why is illegal was proven false and it's been shown that the companies for the government to keep the facts from being public.

piracy isn't illegal in multiple european countries

The study was proven inconclusive, it wasn't peer reviewed and the methods to gather data were dubious at best.

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The study had an absurd margin of error. It's not something you want to die on

Explain

The procedure was as rigorous as a overcooked noodle, i could have pulled numbers out of my ass and that method would have been more rigorous than theirs

The European Commission has been called out for failing to publish data indicating that piracy has little effect on legitimate content sales.

Back in 2014, it paid Dutch consultancy Ecorys more than $400,000 to research how unauthorised access of music, video, books and video games displaced legitimate sales, both online and offline.

The report was completed in May 2015, but was never published - and Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda thinks this is fishy.

"Why did the Commission, after having spent a significant amount of money on it, choose not to publish this study for almost two years?" she asks.

The report concludes that, in most cases, piracy has little impact on legitimate sales.

"In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements," it concludes. Indeed, it found that games piracy actually increased legitimate sales.

There is an exception to this, in the form of blockbuster movies.

"The results show a displacement rate of 40 per cent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally," reads the report.

Even so, the researchers conclude that the reason for this is almost entirely down to cost, and that cutting fees for TV and movies would make a big difference.

The part of the report indicating that piracy ate into legitimate TV and movie sales was publicised by the Commission last year. However, there was no mention of the other findings at all.

>reddit spacing

Literally brainlet.

ebin explain my dude

What

>law is moral
lol

let's archive it
archive.is/Gnp04

They should make stupidity illegal, much more beneficial for the human race.

Based Norwegian

>Not peer reviewed
>Questionnaires and polls asking people if they feel bad about pirating
>They paid 100k for this
No wonder they tried to bury it. They're embarrassed of how awful it is.

Good goys are anti-piracy.

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Can you explain it a little more clearly than your ass numbers being more accurate than their "procedure"?

Any break in text between paragraphs is clearly an indication that you are from Reddit and must be ignored

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would you kill yourself if they made it illegal to abide the law?

Piracy is legal in more than half of the EU nations.

Me pirating movies and games is completely legal and no one can stop me.

"Murica, land of the free"

Don't listen to him. It's some new dank meme that Reddit brought over to try and corner people into ignoring arguments.