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Lies, Damned Lies, and the UK Copyright Industry
artg writes "Ben Goldacre writes about invalid and misleading 'science' in the Guardian. Here's
his report on the statistics behind a recent press story that reported illegal downloading to involve 120 billion pounds worth of material."
It's the scumbags like RIAA gives lies a bad name. Lies keep marriage in tact, family together, friendship, gov't, you name it. Along comes RIAA and ruins lie's good name. Shame.
... Really? Who in this day and age on slashdot did not know that? WOOOOSH
And there I was thinking it was the credit crunch that has caused our economic problems, it's obvious now that the real problem are the millions of teenage girls downloading britney spears albums (or who ever is in at the moment).
Take Microsoft, for example.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
What you don't realise, though, is that a pound coin actually weighs a pound.
Everyone knows we Brits have our very own esoteric units of measurement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/
It always reminds me of a friend who tells he saved 1EUR by running after the bus instead of taking it. I always say he is an idiot and he should run after a taxi. That way he would save much more.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Furthermore, signaling is by AC signals
I knew we were useful for something!
Surely it should be measured in British Libraries or National Libraries of Scotland etc rather than Libraries of Congress?
Nope. None of that weird metric shit.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.