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  1. pdf is available by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1 · on Safe Harbor Cost the US Music Industry Up To $1B in Lost Royalties Per Year, Study Finds (musicweek.com)
    Here: http://www.phoenix-center.org/...

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    The research seems to take the approach of posing a hypothesis about how the music industry is losing money due to youtube, and then asking RIAA and a record company executive about the hypothesis. Lo and behold, they agree with the hypothesis.

    imo, this looks like a for-purchase hit piece against youtube, probably because the RIAA is trying to justify its existence.

  2. Who paid for the study? by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1 · on Safe Harbor Cost the US Music Industry Up To $1B in Lost Royalties Per Year, Study Finds (musicweek.com)
    From the home page of the Phoenix Center For Advanced Legal And Economic Public Policy Studies ( http://www.phoenix-center.org/ )

    The Phoenix Center offer[s] policymakers rigorous economic analysis and legal acumen second to none. --- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

    OK, now I have a better idea of where this research center is coming from...

  3. Who are these guys? by jandrese · · Score: 3, Informative · on Safe Harbor Cost the US Music Industry Up To $1B in Lost Royalties Per Year, Study Finds (musicweek.com)

    I have never heard of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Policy Studies so I went to the their website. Unfortunately I can't find anything talking about their funding sources. However, they do have a prominent endorsement on their homepage from Ajit Pai, which is a substantial red flag.

    Propublica sadly only has their funding lumped together as "contributions", which doesn't help.

  4. Re:Ummm... by nameer · · Score: 1 · on FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US Broadband Plan
    Further, these rankings are often based on the OECD data, which is seriously flawed as a ranking mechanism. From Phoenix Center Policy Paper Number 29: The Broadband Performance Index: A Policy-Relevant Method of Comparing Broadband Adoption Among Countries (emphasis mine)

    A thought experiment can highlight the problems with the OECD's approach. In Table 2, we use OECD data (and some other sources) to show what the OECD broadband rankings would look like in a "Broadband Nirvana"--a situation in which every household and business establishment across the OECD has a broadband connection. One would initially think that in a Broadband Nirvana, every OECD country would be tied for first place, but the per capita method of ranking that the OECD utilizes does not show that result. In fact, in the scenario in which every home in business in the United States and every other OECD country had a broadband connection, the OECD would rank the United States 20th --five spots lower than the United States ranked in December 2006. Moreover, the United States would be further from the top position than it is today (16 percentage points back rather than 11 points back in 2006).