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Tainted "Piracy" Statistics

newtley writes, "The music, movie, and software cartels claim 'piracy' is a Number One problem not only for themselves, but for the world as a whole and so successful are their continuing dis- and misinformation propaganda campaigns that they've been able to dragoon entire governments and police forces into acting as industry enforcers. But, says p2pnet, far from being at the top of the pile, movie and music piracy rank 16th and 20th, respectively, on a global index of illicit markets. (Software piracy ranks 7th.) And even those positions are subject to considerable doubt."

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  1. Re:Sounds like a great waste of time all around by Joebert · · Score: 5, Funny
    13. Trash Smuggling

    Somehow I figured raccoons were a bigger nuisance.
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  2. Re:Sounds like a great waste of time all around by zcat_NZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pirated Music ranks about three items below Trash Smuggling?

    Funny, I thought they were one and the same thing.

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