Lies, Damned Lies, and the UK Copyright Industry 219
artg writes "Ben Goldacre writes about invalid and misleading 'science' in the Guardian. Here's
his report on the statistics behind a recent press story that reported illegal downloading to involve 120 billion pounds worth of material."
For god's sake (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"pounds of material" (Score:1, Funny)
Nearly 10% of GDP! (Score:5, Funny)
And there I was thinking it was the credit crunch that has caused our economic problems, it's obvious now that the real problem are the millions of teenage girls downloading britney spears albums (or who ever is in at the moment).
Re:I think someone does not understand economics. (Score:3, Funny)
Take Microsoft, for example.
Re:"pounds of material" (Score:3, Funny)
What you don't realise, though, is that a pound coin actually weighs a pound.
Re:Doh! (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone knows we Brits have our very own esoteric units of measurement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/ [theregister.co.uk]
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doh! (Score:3, Funny)
Furthermore, signaling is by AC signals
I knew we were useful for something!
Re:Doh! (Score:3, Funny)
Surely it should be measured in British Libraries or National Libraries of Scotland etc rather than Libraries of Congress?
Nope. None of that weird metric shit.