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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!
94.3% of that book is true.
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.
Further, a rather disturbing study has revealed that nearly 50% of all high school students will graduate in the bottom half of their class.