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MPAA Piracy Survey - Junk Research
Cpt_Corelli writes "Alwayson network claims that a recent survey conducted by Online Testing Exchange (OTX) and distributed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is crap. The MPAA's summary of the survey claims, among other hard-to-believe assertions, that 'about one in four Internet users have downloaded a movie.' (It turns out this isn't true, but this is the factoid that was heard around the world the following week.) When did you stop trusting sponsored 'research'?"
They must've gone to the RIAA School of Math.
The MPAA did say "According to British intelligence..." before citing that statistic.
Catwoman was a flop! It must be those darn internet pirates!
In a somewhat fitting coincidence ...
... but of course I saw in the status bar:
... but with errors in the page"
When I followed one of the links that advertises the survey results, the page loaded with javascript errors
"done
I didn't realize that the IE javascript engine could also filter for misleading biased survey scams.
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
About 41% of all statistics are made up.
94.3% of that book is true.
Maybe the MPAA is trying RIAA-style FUD-math?
They didn't really mean that 1 in 4 people had downloaded a 700MB divx/xvid movie, but that since more users have broadband now, these "super-users" can rightly be counted as 24X normal users. :)
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3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
Ah, you found me!
You mean to tell me that if a study on movie piracy is paid for by the people who lose money from movie piracy, it's not going to be unbiased?
Yeah, right. Next, you'll be telling me that classes on copyright law sponsored by the RIAA are one-sided.
Dammit. They covered it in Apple and Games and IT as well. That sure is a lot of dupes. I'm still trying to figure out what this has to do with Linux.
that 82% of all statistics are lies.
...and 12.2% of that book is false.
97.35124% of all statistics are made up, including this one.
On a serious note, 49% of Americans use dial-up. Do you think they'd even consider downloading a movie?
I say we all "sponsor a dial-up user", for ever movie they don't download, we download 2!
"Comedy's a dead art form. Now tragedy, that's funny."
I was the one. I downloaded a movie from the internet.
It was a harried time, and temptation was great. In a weak moment, I succumbed.
I downloaded Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11".
Lets say that this Twinkie represents the normal amount of junk research, junk science, and FUD produced by special interest groups and picked up by the media. Judging from this morning's sample it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
...are made up. Come on, someone had to say it.
Read my short stories - You won't regret it.
And 4 out of 5 doctors with boat payments recommend unnecessary surgery!
Tim