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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.'"
It *IS* called stealing!
I have proof - it's on that DVD I've got at home, right at the beginning, in the bit I always try and skip, but usually can't, so I go and make a pot of tea instead.
Whether the legal term for it is 'stealing' or not - lots of people call it stealing. So, it "is called stealing".
I said WHY it's "called" stealing. Lower down in my message I said how it *is* "similar to" stealing. I never said the legal term for it was 'stealing'. I never said it IS stealing - because it isn't.