Feds Question Big Media's Piracy Claims

WrongSizeGlass writes "CNET is reporting that the GAO's study of big media's piracy claims has raised some questions. (Here are the study's summary, highlights [PDF], and full report [PDF].) 'After spending a year studying how piracy and illegal counterfeiting affects the United States, the Government Accountability Office says it still doesn't know for sure.... The GAO said that most of the published information, anecdotal evidence, and records show that piracy is a drag on the US economy, tax revenue, and in some cases potentially threatens national security and public health. But the problem is, according to the GAO, the data used to quantify piracy isn't reliable.'"

Comments

Of Course!

[Anonymous Coward]

Frist Psot!

Re:Not reliable?

[thrillseeker]

They're going to get some recently unemployed climate scientists to clean it all up.

Re:Thinking about the popularity of D&D

[CorporateSuit]

Mr. AnalogyGuy,

If you simply swapped the first and second paragraphs, you probably would have been modded insightful (or at least "Troll") rather than offtopic. Mods rarely make it past the first paragraph before making their decision on topicality.

Re:Who's the real 40,000 Ton Metallic Monster?

[icedcool]

Hmmm... yea... your going to have to MOD PARENT IRONICALLY BRILLIANT.

Re:As a rule of thumb...

[tibit]

If you consider intramarital rape too, then I'm not surprised. Basically every time when woman says "no, I don't want to have sex now", yet she is forced to do it. I'd even consider 25% to be lowballed.