MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading 215
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that in a 2005 study the MPAA conducted through an outfit called LEK, the movie trade association vastly overestimated how much college students engage in illegal movie downloading. Instead of '44 percent of the industry's domestic losses' owing to their piracy, it's 15 percent — and one expert is quoted as saying even that number is way too high. Dan 'Sammy' Glickman's gang admitted to the mishap, blaming 'human error,' and promised 'immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report.'"
Human Error (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I guess changing the results does constitute "human error"...
Re:Any details on the actual study itself? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Human Error (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah but... (Score:4, Funny)
There's definitely mold of some sort involved, anyway. Mycology knows better than to give in.
Re:Human Error (Score:5, Funny)
Another 27% (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Another 27% (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Any details on the actual study itself? (Score:5, Funny)
Very interesting, sir! VERY interesting!
Re:Any details on the actual study itself? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Human Error (Score:5, Funny)
litigate. LITIGATE! LITIGATE! LITIGATE!
Re:Human Error (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Human Error (Score:3, Funny)
There really is no reason to go insulting Daleks, especially since they can count...
Re:Human Error (Score:3, Funny)
Every other week, an Asian man who speaks little English sells dvd's containing newly released or about to be released movies.
Those that get purchased are the passed around the employees to be viewed at home.
Any that turn out to be defective, or too dim to be watched, are returned to the Asian man for acredit against the next dvd's purchased.
The whole process is off-line and involves no P2P networks, college students or campus networks.