Comments on: Australian govt draft says piracy stats are made up

By: Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:07:29 +0000

I wouldn’t be buying ANY music (if I couldn’t download it) and wouldn’t be interested enough to. Even if I could afford it and could afford the fuel to travel 200k to the more respectable dealers, I’d be lucky to find 5% of what I was looking for and the rest is unavailable so they tell me, or would need to be ordered, and I’d have to make another trip to pay top dollar for them at a later time.

On top of that, what I do download these days is mostly what I’ve never heard of, and most is not available in my area or would be deleted or out of print. In the past I downloaded what I knew and liked, but I already owned it on vinyl and tape, and just wanted a better copy and a backup.

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By: News Doggy - Fetched Technology News » Australian government draft says piracy stats made up

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:09:21 +0000

[...] A private draft prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology for the Attorney- General ‘s Department says that piracy stats aren’t backed up by fact and that copyright holders “failed to explain” how they came up with financial loss figures.read more | digg story [...]

By: balupton

balupton — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:37:29 +0000

:) Glad to see the goverment is waking up.

By: Platypus

Platypus — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:25:14 +0000

@R2K, I love that movie :D
Angelina Jolie :p (I)

By: R2K

R2K — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:47:19 +0000

Sounds about right. This reminds me of the great film hackers, where the government was a lame as anyone. And that was based on a true story.

By: MrBad

MrBad — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:12:38 +0000

I get the feeling these organisations are stating “total downloads” for their potential financial losses, where as in actual fact 85% of the people that downloaded a song/album/movie or whatever would never have bothered to purchase that item in the first place.

By: Platypus

Platypus — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:21:48 +0000

It’s no news that MPIAA/RIAA etc has false statistics (and knows it), but that someone finally starts to qustion their methods are excellent news.