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MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that in a 2005 study the MPAA conducted through an outfit called LEK, the movie trade association vastly overestimated how much college students engage in illegal movie downloading. Instead of '44 percent of the industry's domestic losses' owing to their piracy, it's 15 percent — and one expert is quoted as saying even that number is way too high. Dan 'Sammy' Glickman's gang admitted to the mishap, blaming 'human error,' and promised 'immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report.'"
You fast forward through the advertisements? By denying the producers of those products their opportunity to sell you a product, thereby transferring your money to them, you are stealing from those people, and if they don't sell products they won't advertise and the producers of the show have no sponsor so they can't make any money so you're stealing from them as well. You're just a damn thief, stealing from everybody, aren't you?