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  • From: hernan AT inf.utfsm.cl
  • To: Lista de Correos Creative Commons Chile <cc-cl AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Cc-cl] FWD: Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study
  • Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:33:40 -0300

estimad@s,

este artículo acerca de la sobre-estimación de pérdidas de la industria musical en Australia puede ser muy iluminador. ¿se aplicará a Chile?

--hernan


Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/09/my_study_beats_your_study/
By Thomas C Greene in Dublin
Published Thursday 9th November 2006 13:27 GMT


A draft study commissioned by the Australian Attorney General's office finds that the music and software industries attributes sales losses to piracy without any evidence to back their claims, The Australian reports.

According to a draft report by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the music industry can't explain how it arrives at its statistics for staggering losses through piracy. The Business Software Association's claim of $361m per year in lost sales is "unverified and epistemologically unreliable", the report says.

"Of greatest concern is the potentially unqualified use of these statistics in courts of law," the authors observe.

According to The Australian, the study is due to be revised after the institute's senior members disagreed with its conclusions. "We have an extensive quality control system in the institute, so that drafts are read by most senior staff," principal criminologist Russell Smith told the paper.

It will be interesting to compare the final revision with the current draft to learn if the language is merely softened or if the aforementioned "quality control system" should involve reaching conclusions that the report's purchasers would prefer.







  • [Cc-cl] FWD: Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study, hernan, 11/23/2006

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