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Now It's The UK's Turn For Some Bogus Piracy Stats
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| There are plenty of instances of misleading and otherwise bad stats being
| used by anti-piracy groups, like the recent BSA numbers from Canada that were
| basically made up. Now, a group from the UK is saying that piracy costs that
| country's economy tens of billions of pounds. It makes the same mistake as
| plenty of other studies before it: counting every instance of piracy, or
| perhaps even just the availability of copyrighted material on file-sharing
| networks, as a lost sale.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090529/1352105053.shtml
Medical Research Bought Off by Big Pharma
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| So what if cancer researchers have close financial ties to Big Pharma?
| Scientists have to disclose their associations with drug companies when they
| publish research in respected journals and they'd never let a little thing
| like financial ties influence how they interpret outcomes or run a study.
| Right?
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http://www.alternet.org/story/140191/
Recent:
Let's Drop this Insulting “Digital Piracy” Meme
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| For example, consider this email with the subject line “BSA Launches Faces of
| Piracy Campaign” (BSA = Business Software Alliance), reproduced on this blog
| post:
|
| We've all been following the events of the past week of the pirates off
| the
| Horn of Africa. Piracy takes many forms, some more violent than others.
| I
| wanted to let you know that the Business Software Alliance is launching
| a
| new campaign today "Faces of Internet Piracy" that shows the real-life
| impact of software piracy--from hundreds of thousands of dollars in
| fines to
| jail time.
|
| This callous linking of life-threatening events off the coast of Africa, with
| digital copyright infringement, which doesn't even involve the loss of
| material objects, since perfect copies can be produced without affecting the
| original, is cynical in the extreme. It shows to what depths the BSA has sunk
| if it is able to equate the two.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2088&blogid=14
BSA Tries To Exploit Somali Piracy News In PR Campaign Against Software Sharing
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| We already wrote about how ridiculous it is to compare Somali high seas
| pirates with music, movie and software fans downloading an unauthorized copy
| of something off the internet -- and even the press is starting to question
| the wisdom of calling unauthorized file sharing "piracy." Yet, that hasn't
| stopped the BSA, masters of misleading through questionable stats from
| ramping up a marketing campaign that purposely tries to compare software file
| sharers with Somali pirates.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090414/0113354494.shtml
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