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[hernan AT inf.utfsm.cl]

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.