Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study

[rwenzori]

Courtesy of a story on The Register.

PIRACY statistics are labelled "self-serving hyperbole" in a draft government report.
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Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are "unverified and epistemologically unreliable", the report says.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20713160^15306^^nbv^,00.html

Funny - I never did believe all that BSA cr@p!

 

[noxibox]

It's been known, and reported, for quite some time that they deliberately make up these figures. They aren't called Bogus Statistics Again for nothing. What's really funny is watching these idiots try to justify their fabricated numbers.

 

[Leitmotif]

"This year we would have sold more CDs than we've sold since 1990! And you can't prove otherwise, but we have a lot of highly paid managers who can pay statisticians to agree!"

The music industry makes me sick.

 

[Skeptik]

How much money does the music industry make out of consumers when they have to update their recordings? Vinyl->Tape->CD. In theory we had to buy the same music 3 times!!!

 

[Billy]

How much money does the music industry make out of consumers when they have to update their recordings? Vinyl->Tape->CD. In theory we had to buy the same music 3 times!!!

Not much from me. All my vinyl has been converted to digital "backups" on Musicmatch.

Still got to do the non vinyl 78's though.