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The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
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Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#12The headline seems misleading: > The results show a displacement rate of 40 per cent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally. Remember that absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. The study seems to point at the first one. I don't care enough to be bothered with reading a 300 page report but if you consider taking it as truth, I would rec…
Although, it is easy to misinterpret your quote because of the removed context.
> The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films:“The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.”
This is only true for a subset of films, “major blockbusters.” (Of courses, this is where the “top” in your quote comes from, but it seems easy to miss).
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#13The headline seems misleading: > The results show a displacement rate of 40 per cent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally. Remember that absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. The study seems to point at the first one. I don't care enough to be bothered with reading a 300 page report but if you consider taking it as truth, I would rec…
They call it out directly, citing
> [it means that] the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#14Title is extremely misleading: > The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. > The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films: “The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally. ”
It is not extremely misleading. Most movies are not major blockbuster films, and no games are.
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
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Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#16Title is extremely misleading: > The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. > The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films: “The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally. ”
It is not extremely misleading. Most movies are not major blockbuster films, and no games are.
But the plain amount of movies is not a very good metric of size here: I guess major blockbuster films have a big share of the total market size?
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#17I own Netflix although I mostly use stremio with torrentino. Seems like statistics got it right.
Uh, you don’t own Netflix (unless you’re a shareholder). You’re a subscriber.
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#18The headline seems misleading: > The results show a displacement rate of 40 per cent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally. Remember that absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. The study seems to point at the first one. I don't care enough to be bothered with reading a 300 page report but if you consider taking it as truth, I would rec…
Although, it is easy to misinterpret your quote because of the removed context. > The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films:“The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.” This is only true for a subset of films, “major blockbusters.” (Of courses, this is where the “top” in you…
That seems significant, for Hollywood. What am I not understanding here? Why is this wrapped in a "the only" phrasing?
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#19Title is extremely misleading: > The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. > The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films: “The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally. ”
They also used unit sales instead of revenue. Pirating a $60 new release and buying a $5 steam game we’re both counted as 1 unit.
Re: The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
#20Before Poland joined the EU, one of leftovers from communism was that IP laws resembled these in China - in reality there were none in effect.
Imagine farmers' market but with bootleg VHS and audio cassettes, CDs, brand clothes etc. In every major city. On a weekly basis.
Great majority of Poles were poor as shit and buying original copy of music or video cassette was a very distant thought. Piracy was "normal". I was introduced to The Prodigy by my math teacher, who lent me a copy-copy of their Music for the Jilted Generation. I learned English from pirated movies. Got to know a lot of great music and TV shows.
I now own all of Prodigy's CDs as well as hundreds of other legal music CDs and BluRay sets/boxes. Not a chance in hell I'd buy all this without a taste of a product beforehand.
Looking at this from 2023, I believe that our access to affordable (pirated) creations of western culture allowed up to leave Soviet (or communist as we were not a part of CCCP) mentality behind more quickly.