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January 22, 2012 04:04 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oTgAM1dT7s4/lies-damned-lies-and-piracy.html
Lies, damned lies, and piracy statistics
Julian Sanchez is on fire in this Ars Technica article on the funny accountancy and outright lies that underlie the harms-from-piracy stats cited in policy debates about Internet censorship and surveillance proposals like SOPA and PIPA: As a rough analogy, since antipiracy crusaders are fond of equating filesharing with shoplifting: suppose the CEO of Wal-Mart [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oTgAM1dT7s4/lies-damned-lies-and-piracy.html
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