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bymarkdavis ( 642305 ) writes:
When the study doesn't fit the narrative, just bury it! If that isn't bias, what is?
Piracy does and can hurt legal revenue, but nowhere near as much as many seem to think. A more interesting study might be: "What hurts legal revenue more- piracy, or DRM + region locking + overly high prices + time-locking + scarcity + poor legal choices to obtain content?" Care to wager which it is?
byjandersen ( 462034 ) writes:
When the study doesn't fit the narrative, just bury it! If that isn't bias, what is?
Well, I tend to agree, but I also think that before we get up in arms, we should try to understand this in a wider context. This is in fact something that has been in the news several times recent years - not about piracy, but about politicians not following the advice of their own experts. Most notoriously, the furore about David Nutt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt), who was dismissed as a government advisor for criticising the UK drugs policy. He was IMO 100% right in his criticism, but I think we have to accept that policy is a matter for politicians, and although the science advice is very clear, there may be other reasons why it is deemed right to dismiss that advice, and what should ask first of all is: what were those reasons?
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