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Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bogus-stats dept.

TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a new "Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the Justice Department had said it doesn't want), the US Chamber of Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy. Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."

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  1. Easy by Eponymous+Crowbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we just hire 750,000 copyright czars, well there ya go. That would be mavericky, you betcha.

    1. Re:Easy by Jimmyisikura · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes but then we have created a problem by removing 10,000,000,000 pirates from the market. Pirates need to eat too. Studies also show that 12/15 of those 750,000 are part-time ax-murderers. I think the statistics show the real victims here.

  2. Henry Paulson by whisper_jeff · · Score: 5, Funny

    They got that number from Henry Paulson - he's so good at pulling out random large numbers that sound plausible while being founded on nothing of substance, after all.

  3. "...it doesn't cite where that number comes from." by Snarfangel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easy. It comes from the set of real numbers.

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  4. Re:"...it doesn't cite where that number comes fro by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Funny

    It comes from the set of real numbers.

    Funny, I could have sworn it looked imaginary.

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