A DRAFT REPORT by the Australian Institute of Criminology says copyright holders are making up piracy figures in order to sway governments to their side.
The report says that piracy statistics are “self-serving hyperbole” which are “unverified and epistemologically unreliable”.
A leaked draft of the report has ended up in the sticky paws of an Australian newspaper. It says that copyright owners “failed to explain” how they reached financial loss statistics used in lobbying activities and court cases.
Recently the Business Software Association claimed it had lost $361 million a year to Australian pirates. Author of the report Alex Malik, seems to imply that these figures are being plucked out of thin air.
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i agree with this.